Taxation and Left-Wing Redistribution: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden

Andersson, Per F.

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“…By examining one tax policy decision with intertemporal redistributive consequences, this analysis provides a sharp empirical test of competition’s myopic effects. Lastly, it adds to research on the political economy of taxation by providing a general theory that specifies the electoral conditions under which increases in consumer prices are politically feasible (e.g., P. F. Andersson, 2022; Beramendi & Rueda, 2007; Levi, 1989; Martin, 2015; Rogowski & Kayser, 2002)…”

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“…By examining one tax policy decision with intertemporal redistributive consequences, this analysis provides a sharp empirical test of competition's myopic effects. Lastly, it adds to research on the political economy of taxation by providing a general theory that specifies the electoral conditions under which increases in consumer prices are politically feasible (e.g., P. F. Andersson, 2022;Beramendi & Rueda, 2007;Levi, 1989;Martin, 2015;Rogowski & Kayser, 2002) From a policy perspective the paper has practical implications for addressing climate change. Increased fossil fuel prices are often thought to be important to shift production and consumption onto a more sustainable path.…”

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Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation

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When do governments adopt ambitious climate policy? Charting the theoretical territory between climate change politics and long-term policymaking, this paper highlights the role of electoral competition in shaping how politicians respond to the intertemporal tradeoff of one important climate change mitigation policy: fossil fuel taxation. The more secure the government is in office, the more insulated it is from the vagaries of political competition, and the more likely it is to impose costs on constituents today to generate a future stable climate. By influencing governments’ time preferences, competition structures the myopia of elected officials. I test the arguments using an original dataset of gasoline taxation across high-income democracies between 1988 and 2013. I find evidence that higher levels of electoral competition are associated with lower gasoline tax rates, and that the relationship is moderated by the level of costs imposed on voters, but not government partisanship. More generally, the analysis highlights when governments can increase consumer prices to address long-term challenges.

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Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation

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Information, Equal Treatment, and Support for Regressive Taxation: Experimental Evidence from the United States

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Drivers of the Tax Effort: Evidence from a Large Panel

2022

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This paper extends previous literature by assessing the drivers of tax effort in a large panel of 122 countries over the period 1980 to 2017 and refining the analysis to regions, periods, income group, and economic development level. Our focus is on five blocks of determinants, namely: economic, fiscal, openness, structural, and political. We find that tax effort is influenced by all blocks, although results differ per income group. Tax effort in advanced economies is driven by all blocks of drivers, except political variables, while openness, structural, and political blocks prevail in developing economies. There is no consistency regarding the determinants across the four regions (Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia). We also find that during the first two decades under analysis, tax effort is mainly associated with both higher levels of countries' tax revenues and the role of the agricultural sector in the economy, while from 1999 onwards the determinants are mainly driven by left-wing ruling governments and the economic and fiscal blocks of variables. Our results are robust for a battery of sensitivity and robustness tests. Taken all together, our findings suggest the existence of heterogeneous impacts, which implies that policies resulting in improvements in the level of tax effort can affect countries in different ways.

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Taxation and Left-Wing Redistribution: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden

Cited by 3 publications

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Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation

Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation

Information, Equal Treatment, and Support for Regressive Taxation: Experimental Evidence from the United States

Drivers of the Tax Effort: Evidence from a Large Panel

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