Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189177 
Year of Publication: 
1992
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 853
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Despite the fact that all developed economies levy broadly-based indirect taxes alongside direct taxes, little theory is devoted to explaining the direct-indirect tax mix. Our purpose is to show that if different taxes have different evasion characteristics, some optimal tax mix emerges naturally. Assuming that only income tax can be evaded and focusing on a two-class economy, we analyze the case for supplementing optimal(nonlinear) income taxation with commodity taxation, and we develop conditions under which the latter should or should not be uniform.
JEL: 
H21
H24
H26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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