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The Economics of Taxing the Rich / Joel Slemrod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slemrod, Joel.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6584.
- NBER working paper series no. w6584
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.
- Summary:
- How much and how to tax high-income individuals is at the core of many recent proposals for incremental as well as fundamental tax reform. This paper critically reviews the economics literature and concludes that the right answer to these questions depends in part on value judgments about which economics has little to contribute, but also depends on standard economics concerns such as the process generating income and wealth, and whether wealth individuals' economic activities have positive (or negative) externalities. How much and how to tax the rich also depends critically on how they will respond to attempts to tax them because, other things equal, it is wise to limit the extent to which they are induced to pursue less socially productive activities in order to avoid taxes.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 1998.
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