We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the neoclassical growth model under the assumption that taxes and public good provision are decided by a self-interested politician who cannot commit to policies. Citizens can imperfectly control the politician using elections similar to a political agency model. As in the standard dynamic taxation models, we only allow for linear taxes on c...

OBJECTIVE To assess critically the scope for public health nutrition taxation within the framework of the global tax reform agenda. DESIGN Review of the tax policy literature for global policy priorities relevant to public health nutrition taxation; critical analysis of proposals for public health nutrition taxation judged against the global agenda for tax reform. SETTING The global tax ref...

This article tells a different but equally important story about neoliberalism and global health than the narrative on structural adjustment policies usually found in the literature. Rather than focus on macroeconomic structural adjustment policies, this story draws our attention to microeconomic taxation policies on tobacco, alcohol and sugar now widely recognised as the best strategy to contr...

With ever rising concerns regarding global warming and other dangerous effects of C0 2 , there had been efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions all around the world by adopting more efficient technologies and alternate green or carbon neutral fuels. However, these technologies require large investments and hence to make them economically viable there should be suitable incentives from the government i...

Differential property tax policy for farmland is often set under conditions of uncertainty and limited information regarding landowners’ objective functions. This study examines optimal differential tax policy for a parcel of agricultural land facing uncertain development, identifying instances in which common farmland taxation policies may be non-optimal. Optimal tax rates are characterized gi...