Taxes and Public finance
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A tax (also known as a "duty", or Zakat in Islamic economics) is a
charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a
state or a functional equivalent of a state (e.g., tribes,
secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). Taxes could also
be imposed by a sub national entity.
Taxes may be part of a direct tax or indirect tax, and may be paid
in money or as corvée labor. In modern, capitalist taxation systems,
taxes are levied in money, but in-kind and corvée taxation are
characteristic of traditional or pre-capitalist states and their
functional equivalents.
The means of taxation, and the uses to which the funds raised
through taxation should be put, are a matter of hot dispute in
politics and economics, so discussions of taxation are frequently
tendentious.
Public finance is the field of political science / economics that
deals with taxation.
"Public finance" (government finance) is the field of economics that
deals with budgeting the revenues and expenditures of a public
sector entity, usually government. Governments, like any other legal
entity, can take out loans, issue bonds and invest. Based on the
taxing authority of the entity, they issue bonds such as tax
increment bonds or revenue bonds. A bond issued by a public sector
entity may give tax advantages to its owners. |
Efficiency
A model of efficient resource use
Equity vs efficiency
Market efficiency conditions
Market failures
Pareto efficiency
Government efficiency - how efficient are governments at obtaining
their objectives? how much of their expenditure actually goes to
where it is intended? what types of waste exist?
Scope of government activities - what do governments spend money on?
what should governments spend money on? what can be left to markets?
Why governments should be concerned with externalities, public
goods.Externalities and government policy
Internalization of externalities
The Coase Theorem. The Coase theorem is the idea that government,
with the power to establish the rights to use resources, can
internalize externalities when transaction costs of bargaining are
zero Income distribution
Income distribution - How will these government expenditures
influence the incomes of one group relative to another group?
Government programs like ?disaster relief? transfer wealth to people
that have suffered a loss due to natural disaster. Social security
transfers wealth from the young to the old. Engaging in a war
transfers wealth to certain sectors of society. Public education
transfers wealth to families with children in these schools. Public
road construction transfers wealth from people that do not use the
roads to those people that do (and to those that build the roads).
Income Security
Employment insurance
Health Care |
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