Is consumption tax regressive? A libertarian perspective
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Keywords
consumption tax; income tax; libertarian; progressive tax; regressive tax;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2017-11-26 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2017-11-26 (Public Economics)
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