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This paper deals with optimum commodity taxation in Bocker’s (1965) model of the allocation of time. While the existing public finance literature emphasizes the role of cross elasticity’s with leisure, we find that the optimal tax system crucially depends on factor shares and elasticity’s of substitution in household production.
In the special case of Leontieff technology, the optimum tax rule depends solely on factor shares and, furthermore, this simple rule maintains the first best allocation. The Becker approach implies, for example, that the social optimum involves a preferential tax treatment of consumer services and possibly even exclusion from the tax base.
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