A Reconsideration of the Optimal Income Tax.
This paper develops a formula for the optimal nonlinear income tax, the terms of which are familiar from the theory of linear income taxation. The development uses the idea of a perturbation of the optimal schedule and is based upon as assumption of differentiability. It is also shown that the intro...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2000
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