Revisiting the optimal linear income tax with categorical transfers

Sean Edward Slack

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.06.015

Revisiting the optimal linear income tax with categorical transfers

Sean Edward Slack

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When individuals differ in both productivity and some categorical attribute, optimal linear/piecewise-linear tax expressions are written to capture cases where it is suboptimal to eliminate inequality in the average social marginal value of income between categorical groups. Simulations provide examples.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	73-77
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	134
Early online date	26 Jun 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.06.015
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Between-group inequality
Categorical benefit
Linear income
Tax
Social marginal value of income

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10.1016/j.econlet.2015.06.015

Revisiting the Optimal Linear Income Tax with Categorical Transfers
Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Economics Letters. Changes resulting from the publishing process may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was published in Economics Letters, 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.06.015
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