Erschienen in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 3342
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1 Online-Ressource (32 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1761266
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 14, 2011 erstellt
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This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal income redistribution with optimal corrective taxes to internalize consumption externalities. It is demonstrated that the optimal second-best tax on an externality-generating good should not be corrected for the marginal cost of public funds. The reason is that the marginal cost of public funds equals unity in the optimal tax system, since marginal distortions of taxation are equal to marginal distributional gains. The Pigouvian tax needs to be modified, however, if polluting commodities or environmental quality are more complementary to leisure than non-polluting commodities are