What makes the personal income tax progressive? A comparative analysis for fifteen OECD countries

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 299-316

  Wagstaff, Adam ^a,b   Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Personal income tax; Sources of progressivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042371975     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011268209860     Document Type: Article

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