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: Legal Theory BlogKaplow on Taxing Leisure Compliments
By Lawrence Solum
Louis Kaplow (Harvard University - Harvard Law School) has posted has posted Taxing Leisure Complements on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Ever since Corlett and Hague (1953), it has been understood that it tends to be optimal on second-best grounds to (relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of taxation on labor supply. Yet in the context of simultaneous optimization of a nonlinear income tax and commodity taxes, Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) claim to have demonstrated the opposite, that goods complementary with leisure should "face lower tax rates, whereas substitutes face higher tax rates." Derivations in leading texts on optimal taxation seem to yield opposing conclusions regarding the sign of optimal deviation of commodity taxes from uniformity. It is demonstrated that the optimality of relatively taxing leisure complements is indeed correct, and conflicting results are explained.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).
Kaplow & Shavell on On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation
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Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan) & Jon Bakija (Williams College) have published Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes (MIT Press, 4th ed. 2008). Here is the publisher's description: As Albert Einstein may or may not have...
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