From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy - Retrospective and Prospective Views

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-262-01711-4
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Reihe: Munich Lectures in Economics

Many things inform a countrys choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this book, Robin Boadway examines the role of optimal tax analysis in informing and influencing tax policy design. Scholars of public economics formulate models of optimal tax-transfer systems based on normative principles that reflect efficiency and equity considerations. They use that analysis to form views about the optimal design or reform of actual tax systems that are much more complicated than their models. Boadway argues that there is an important symbiosis between ideas drawn from normative tax analysis and tax policies actually enacted. Ideas germinated by normative analyses have led to the widespread adoption of the value-added tax, the use of refundable tax credits, and various business tax reforms. Other ideas provide rationales for existing features of tax systems, including the tax treatment of retirement savings and human capital investment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boadway, Robin

Sinn, Hans-Werner

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Rechtswissenschaften Steuerrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Boadway is D. C. Smith Chair in Economics at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. He is author or editor of many books.