Title of article
Popular support for progressive taxation and the relative income hypothesis
Author/Authors
Tapan Mitra، نويسنده , , Efe A. Ok، نويسنده , , Levent Koçkesen، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
Pages
8
From page
69
To page
76
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Voting , Interdependent preferences , Progressive income taxation
Journal title
Economics Letters
Serial Year
1998
Journal title
Economics Letters
Record number
434476
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