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Public Input Provision in an Optimal Income Tax Model

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  • Mutsumi Matsumoto

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This paper derives and examines the provision rule for public inputs within a two-class framework of optimal income taxation. If income redistribution policies must be designed under a self-selection constraint because the ability of any particular worker is private information, public input provision is used as a means of relaxing this constraint. This use of public inputs for helping income redistribution entails a deviation from the first-best provision rule. The resultant inefficiency is due to the impact of public input provision on the wage differential between workers with different abilities.

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  • Mutsumi Matsumoto, 2001. "Public Input Provision in an Optimal Income Tax Model," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 58(1), pages 12-30, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:sici:0015-2218(200112)58:1_12:pipiao_2.0.tx_2-7
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    Cited by:

    1. Robert Scherf & Matthew Weinzierl, 2020. "Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit‐Based Taxation," Fiscal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 41(2), pages 385-410, June.
    2. Matthew Weinzierl, 2018. "Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit‐based Taxation," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 128(612), pages 37-64, July.

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    JEL classification:

    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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