Popular support for progressive taxation and the relative income hypothesis

Tapan Mitra; Efe A. Ok; Levent Koçkesen

doi:10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00260-7

Popular support for progressive taxation and the relative income hypothesis

Tapan Mitra, Efe A. Ok, Levent Koçkesen

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We show that a marginal rate progressive tax always defeats a marginal rate regressive tax under pairwise majority voting (so long as the latter collects at least as much revenue as the former one) irrespective of whether the voters care at all about their relative incomes or not.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	69-76
Number of pages	8
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	58
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00260-7
State	Published - Jan 1 1998

Keywords

D72
Interdependent preferences
Progressive income taxation
Voting

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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