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Alexis PARMENTIER, Etienne LEHMANN and Jean HINDRIKS
 
''Optimal income taxation and the shape of average tax rates''
( 2006, Vol. 8 No.2 )
 
 
We investigate whether the optimal income tax model of Mirrlees (1971) can reproduce the empirically observed increasing average tax rates. We give a necessary condition and exhibit two examples where the optimal average tax rates are increasing.
 
 
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JEL: H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
 
Manuscript Received : Mar 15 2006 Manuscript Accepted : Mar 23 2006

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