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A case for taxing charitable donations

Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
969512 Journal of Public Economics 2007 10 Pages PDF
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.

Keywords
Re-distributionSignalingSocial statusInequalityCharitable contributions
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A case for taxing charitable donations
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Tomer Blumkin, Efraim Sadka,
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