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Optimal taxation of intermediate goods in the presence of externalities: A survey towards the transport sector
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Society, environment and transport, Transport economics Stockholm.
2004 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

The paper surveys the literature on optimal taxation with emphasis on intermediate goods, or, more specific, freight (road) transport. There are two models frequently used, first, the one emanated from Diamond & Mirrlees' (1971) paper, where the production efficiency lemma made it clear that intermediate goods was not to be taxed. And, second, the Ramsey-Boiteux model where a cost-of-service regulation imposes a budget constraint for the regulated firm. In the latter model, in contrast to the first, freight transports (intermediate goods) are to be taxed in the Ramsey tradition, and thus trades the production efficiency lemma against a budget restriction. The paper also discusses welfare effects due to environmental tax reforms, with emphasis to what has become to known as the double dividend hypothesis. Finally, administrative costs in the context of optimal taxation is touched upon, a subject that is to a large degree repressed in optimal tax theory.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, 2004. , p. 47
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VTI meddelande, ISSN 0347-6049 ; 970A
Keywords [en]
Tax, Freight transport, Budget, Cost benefit analysis, Economics of transport, Efficiency, Mathematical model
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Economics
Research subject
Road: Transport, society, policy and planning, Road: Freight transport; Road: General works, surveys, comprehensive works, Road: Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-5154OAI: oai:DiVA.org:vti-5154DiVA, id: diva2:673984
Available from: 2013-12-03 Created: 2013-12-03 Last updated: 2014-03-17Bibliographically approved

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