Nonlinear Capital Taxation Without Commitment

We study efficient non-linear taxation of labour and capital in a dynamic Mirrleesian model incorporating political economy constraints. Policies are chosen sequentially over time, without commitment. Our main result is that the marginal tax on capital income is progressive, in the sense that richer...

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Main Authors: Werning, Ivan, Farhi, Emmanuel, Sleet, Christopher, Yeltekin, Sevin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82875
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-5575
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Summary:We study efficient non-linear taxation of labour and capital in a dynamic Mirrleesian model incorporating political economy constraints. Policies are chosen sequentially over time, without commitment. Our main result is that the marginal tax on capital income is progressive, in the sense that richer agents face higher marginal tax rates.