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Optimal Capital Income Taxation, Investment Subsidies and Redistribution in a Neoclassical Growth Model

Rehme, Günther (2007):
Optimal Capital Income Taxation, Investment Subsidies and Redistribution in a Neoclassical Growth Model.
In: Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics, 188, Darmstadt, [Report]

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Title: Optimal Capital Income Taxation, Investment Subsidies and Redistribution in a Neoclassical Growth Model
Language: English
Abstract:

In this paper I readdress the result that capital income taxes are bad instruments for pure redistribution and should be zero in the long run. In a neoclassical growth model a capital income cum investment subsidy tax, which is not distorting accumulation, is considered to investigate if net capital income taxes used for pure redistribution are zero in a long-run optimum. I find that capital income taxes may be nonzero, depending on the political power of those who receive redistributive transfers, the distribution of pre-tax factor incomes, and the intertemporal elasticity of substitution.

Series: Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics
Series Volume: 188
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Uncontrolled Keywords: Growth, Redistribution, Investment Subsidies, Capital Income Taxes
Classification DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
Divisions: 01 Department of Law and Economics
01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete > Economic Theory
01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2009 13:20
Last Modified: 09 Jul 2020 01:01
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-47393
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JEL - Classification: O41, H21, D33

URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/4739
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