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Optimal taxation of capital income in a growth model with monopoly profits


Abstract: An extension of the standard neoclassical growth model, demonstrating that the optimal steady-state tax on capital income can be positive, negative, or zero, depending on the level of monopoly profits and the degree to which profits can be taxed.

Keywords: Taxation; Dividends;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Working Papers (Old Series)

Publication Date: 1995

Number: 9510