A Note on Progressive Taxation and Inequality Equivalence
Inequality, Taxation and Intergenerational Transmission
ISBN: 978-1-78756-458-9, eISBN: 978-1-78756-457-2
Publication date: 28 December 2018
Abstract
We investigate the relationship between the notion of progressive taxation and inequality reduction under a general version of the concept of inequality equivalence. We consider a two-parameter formalization of the concept of inequality equivalence that both includes, as special cases, the intermediate inequality equivalence and the path-independent/unit-consistent inequality equivalence. Both criteria could range from relative to absolute inequality views as the parameters in the formulation change. For the path-independent/unit-consistent inequality equivalence the condition of nondecreasing average tax rate is necessary and sufficient to guarantee the inequality-reducing effect of taxation for all the inequality views in between the relative and the absolute.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank an anonymous referee for helpful comments and suggestions.
Citation
Zoli, C. (2018), "A Note on Progressive Taxation and Inequality Equivalence", Bishop, J.A. and Rodríguez, J.G. (Ed.) Inequality, Taxation and Intergenerational Transmission (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 26), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520180000026003
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