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| Title: | | Contribution to the theory of optimal utilitarian income taxation  |
| Authors: | | Hellwig, Martin |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2007,2 |
| Abstract: | | The paper provides a new formulation of the Mirrlees-Seade theo- rem on the positivity of the optimal marginal income tax, under weaker assumptions and in a more general model. The formulation of the the- orem is independent of whether the model involves Â…nitely many types or a continuous type distribution. The formal argument makes the un- derlying logic transparent, relating the mathematics to the economics and showing precisely how each assumption enters the analysis. |
| Subjects: | | Optimal Income Taxation Utilitarian Welfare Maxi- mization Redistribution |
| JEL: | | D63 H21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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