Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26908 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2006,24
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper assumes that individuals possess private information both about their abilities and about their valuation of a public good. Individuals can undertake collective actions on order to manipulate the tax system and the decision on public good provision. Consequently, an implementable scheme of taxation has to be collectively incentive compatible. If preferences are additively separable, then an implementable tax systems has the following properties: (i) tax payments do not depend on public goods preferences and (ii) there is no scope for a collective manipulation of public goods preferences. For a quasilinear economy, the optimal tax system is explicitly characterized.
Subjects: 
Optimal Taxation
Public Good Provision
Revelation of Preferences
Information Aggregation
JEL: 
D71
D82
H21
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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