Taxing the Rich

Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. Taxing bads by taxing goods : pollution control with presumptive charges / Gunnar S. Eskeland, Shantayanan Devaraj...

Taxing the Internet

Governments across the globe are facing challenging times to generate more revenue because of the economic slowdown and to balance their budgets. There is a growing need to find new ways of revenue generation as spending cuts and austerity measures don't go well with most sections of the society, especially during difficult economic times. Internet Today is seen more as a necessary commodity an...

Taxing Subnetworks

We study taxes in the well-known game theoretic traffic model due to Wardrop. Given a network and a subset of edges, on which we can impose taxes, the problem is to find taxes inducing an equilibrium flow of minimal networkwide latency cost. If all edges are taxable, then marginal cost pricing is known to induce the socially optimal flow for arbitrary multi-commodity networks. In contrast, if o...

Taxing Democracy

Taxing Top Ceo Incomes

We use a firm-CEO assignment framework to model the market for CEO effective labor. In the model’s equilibrium more talented CEOs match with and supply more effort to larger firms. Taxation of CEO incomes affects the equilibrium pricing of CEO effective labor and, hence, spills over and affects firm profits. Absent the ability to tax profits or a direct concern for firm owners, a standard presc...