A well-known result in public economics is that capital income should not be taxed in the long run. This result has been derived using necessary optimality conditions for an appropriate dynamic Stackelberg game. In this paper we consider three models of dynamic taxation in continuous time and suggest a method for calculating their feedback Nash equilibria based on a sufficient condition for optimality. We show that the optimal tax on capital income is generally different from zero.
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author = {Mikhail Krastanov and Rossen Rozenov},
title = {Feedback Nash equilibria in optimal taxation problems},
journal = {Open Mathematics},
volume = {7},
year = {2009},
pages = {757-774},
zbl = {1183.91020},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_2478_s11533-009-0040-5}
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Mikhail Krastanov; Rossen Rozenov. Feedback Nash equilibria in optimal taxation problems. Open Mathematics, Tome 7 (2009) pp. 757-774. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_2478_s11533-009-0040-5/
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