EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates

This paper examines whether the salience of a tax system affects equilibrium tax rates. I analyze how tolls change after toll facilities adopt electronic toll collection (ETC); drivers are substantially less aware of tolls paid electronically. I estimate that, in steady state, tolls are 20 to 40 per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finkelstein, Amy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58478
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684