• 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