Regularly, governments had to face economic crisis, which bring about decreasing tax returns. This paper aims to examine whether a policy of tax increase is the best way to restore the budget balance. As a matter of fact, the tax system exercise effects on human action. If the burden is increasing, the individuals might have incentives to sell less taxed marketable work at the expense of other occupations. The tax returns might then vary in inverse ratio of the tax level. This principle, known for more than two centuries, may be called the "Laffer effect", by the name of the economist who "rediscovered" it in 1978. After reviewing the theoretical grounds which establish that effect, i.e. the substitutions between work and leisure on one han...
The paper characterizes the optimal tax scheme in an open economy with structural inefficiencies on ...
The authors use experimental economics to examine how people adjust their labor supply in response t...
In France, the main objective of structural tax/benefit reform has been to cut low-wage payroll cont...
Regularly, governments had to face economic crisis, which bring about decreasing tax returns. This p...
In France, the pattern of old age pension is characterized by a tax on continued activity, which dis...
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Tax reform is a major subject of current debates on the French economy. Yet, such a reform could hav...
France belongs to the group of OECD countries with relatively high tax levels. In recent years Frenc...
High-Income Taxpayers' Reactions to Marginal Income Tax Rates Changes in France, 1970-1996 by Thoma...
The reorientation of the british tax system (1979-1986), by Jean-Jacques Santini. A number of stu...
En 1974, Arthur Laffer lançait l'idée que les recettes fiscales d'un état Léviathan se mettent à déc...
National audienceIn France, the pattern of old age pension is characterized by a tax on continued ac...
The article aims to determine the optimal level of tax burden in order to maximize the level of GDP....
According to Laffer, economic activities are a decreasing function of the taxation rate. As a conseq...
The paper characterizes the optimal tax scheme in an open economy with structural inefficiencies on ...
The authors use experimental economics to examine how people adjust their labor supply in response t...
In France, the main objective of structural tax/benefit reform has been to cut low-wage payroll cont...
Regularly, governments had to face economic crisis, which bring about decreasing tax returns. This p...
In France, the pattern of old age pension is characterized by a tax on continued activity, which dis...
URL des Cahiers : https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/CAHIERS-MSECahiers de la Maison des Sciences E...
Tax reform is a major subject of current debates on the French economy. Yet, such a reform could hav...
France belongs to the group of OECD countries with relatively high tax levels. In recent years Frenc...
High-Income Taxpayers' Reactions to Marginal Income Tax Rates Changes in France, 1970-1996 by Thoma...
The reorientation of the british tax system (1979-1986), by Jean-Jacques Santini. A number of stu...
En 1974, Arthur Laffer lançait l'idée que les recettes fiscales d'un état Léviathan se mettent à déc...
National audienceIn France, the pattern of old age pension is characterized by a tax on continued ac...
The article aims to determine the optimal level of tax burden in order to maximize the level of GDP....
According to Laffer, economic activities are a decreasing function of the taxation rate. As a conseq...
The paper characterizes the optimal tax scheme in an open economy with structural inefficiencies on ...
The authors use experimental economics to examine how people adjust their labor supply in response t...
In France, the main objective of structural tax/benefit reform has been to cut low-wage payroll cont...