Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction

Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Matti Tuomala and Tuuli Paukkeri

No wp-2015-054, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can only implement linear tax policies due to administrative reasons. Further, the reduction of poverty is typically the expressed goal of such countries, and this feature is also taken into account in our model.

Keywords: Income tax; Poverty; Public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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