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Bridging the tax-expenditure gap : green taxes and the marginal cost of funds

Sandmo, Agnar
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2001-02
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Abstract
The marginal cost of public funds is usually seen as a number greater than one,

reflecting the efficiency cost of distortionary taxes. But economic intuition suggests

that since green taxes are efficiency-enhancing the MCF with such taxes will be less

than one. The paper demonstrates that this intuition is not necessarily true, even when

a green tax is the sole source of funds. The analysis also considers the MCF with a

proportional income tax, given the presence of green taxes. It compares the

optimization approach to the MCF with that of a balanced budget reform and shows that they lead to equivalent results.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2001:2

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