Chapter 26 Tax incidence

Handbook of Public Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1787-1872

  Fullerton, Don ^a   Metcalf, Gilbert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate income taxes; distributional effects; economic incidence; general equilibrium models; payroll taxes; personal taxes; sales and excise taxes; statutory incidence; tax shifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649378844     PISSN: 15734420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4420(02)80005-2     Document Type: Review

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