A Comparison of Tax Bases for a Personal Tax
A Comparison of Tax Bases for a Personal Tax
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个人税税基比较
DOI:
10.2307/3439760
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发表时间:
1981
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N. Blomquist
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作者:
N. Blomquist
Tax bases for a personal tax are compared in this paper. It is found that the potential welfare gains of moving from a linear affine tax on labor earnings to a linear affine tax on wage rates seem to be larger than the potential gains of moving from a head tax to an earnings tax. It is also shown that for the common optimal taxation model, utility levels and ability (as measured by wage rates) are inversely related at the first-best optimum. A development of the model, so that a positive relationship between utility and ability results, is suggested.