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| Title: | | Income taxes, property values and migration  |
| Authors: | | Glazer, Amihai Kanniainen, Vesa Poutvaara, Panu |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 1889 |
| Abstract: | | We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned by absentee landlords. The redistributive tax on the rich may be higher or lower when the rich can migrate than when they cannot. |
| Subjects: | | taxes land rents property values migration redistribution |
| JEL: | | H21 H7 R21 R23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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