A case for taxing charitable donations

Tomer Blumkin; Efraim Sadka

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.02.003

A case for taxing charitable donations

Tomer Blumkin, Efraim Sadka

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a favorable tax treatment to charitable contributions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1555-1564
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Public Economics
Volume	91
Issue number	7-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.02.003
State	Published - 1 Aug 2007

Keywords

Charitable contributions
Inequality
Optimal taxation
Re-distribution
Signaling
Social status

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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