In models of economic geography, plant-level scale economies and trade costs create incentives for spatial agglomeration of production into a manufacturing core and agricultural periphery, creating regional income differentials. We examine tax competition between national governments to influence the location of manufacturing activity. Labour is imperfectly mobile and governments impose redistr...

Taxes & Social Security This section provides information on U.S. federal and state income taxes and getting a Social Security number and card. It includes the following topics: Taxes Tax Laws and Filing Requirements [1] ● Guide to U.S. Federal Income Tax for F & J Visa Holders [2] ❍ Non-Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [3] ❍ Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [4] ❍ Requesting an Extension to Fil...

The traditional view that excise taxes are regressive has been challenged. I document the history of the term regressive tax, show that traditional definitions have always found cigarette taxes to be regressive, and illustrate the implications of the greater price responsiveness observed among the poor. I explain the different definitions of tax burden: accounting, welfare-based willingness to ...

Taxes & Social Security This section provides information on U.S. federal and state income taxes and getting a Social Security number and card. It includes the following topics: Taxes Tax Laws and Filing Requirements [1] ● Guide to U.S. Federal Income Tax for F & J Visa Holders [2] ❍ Non-Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [3] ❍ Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [4] ❍ Requesting an Extension to Fil...

Taxes & Social Security This section provides information on U.S. federal and state income taxes and getting a Social Security number and card. It includes the following topics: Taxes Tax Laws and Filing Requirements [1] ● Guide to U.S. Federal Income Tax for F & J Visa Holders [2] ❍ Non-Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [3] ❍ Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [4] ❍ Requesting an Extension to Fil...

Taxes & Social Security This section provides information on U.S. federal and state income taxes and getting a Social Security number and card. It includes the following topics: Taxes Tax Laws and Filing Requirements [1] ● Guide to U.S. Federal Income Tax for F & J Visa Holders [2] ❍ Non-Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [3] ❍ Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [4] ❍ Requesting an Extension to Fil...

Cost Utility Analysis (CUA) and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) are methods to evaluate allocations of health care resources. Problems are raised for both methods when income taxes do not meet the first best optimum. This paper explores the implications of three ways that taxes may fall short of this ideal. First, taxes may be distortionary. Second, they may be designed and administered without ref...

Taxes & Social Security This section provides information on U.S. federal and state income taxes and getting a Social Security number and card. It includes the following topics: Taxes Tax Laws and Filing Requirements [1] ● Guide to U.S. Federal Income Tax for F & J Visa Holders [2] ❍ Non-Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [3] ❍ Resident Aliens for Tax Purposes [4] ❍ Requesting an Extension to Fil...

This paper estimates the dynamic effects of changes in taxes in the United States. We distinguish between the effects of changes in personal and corporate income taxes using a new narrative account of federal tax liability changes in these two tax components. We develop an estimator in which narratively identified tax changes are used as proxies for structural tax shocks and apply it to quarter...

By supplementing income explicitly through payments or implicitly through taxes collected, income-based taxes and transfers make disposable income less variable. Because disposable income determines consumption, policies that smooth disposable income also create welfare improving consumption insurance. With data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics we find that annual consumption variation i...