Tax Policy

Louis Kaplow, An Optimal Tax System, 32 Fiscal Stud. 415 (2011).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Taxation with Costly Enforcement and Evasion, 43 J. Pub. Econ. 221 (1990).

Louis Kaplow, An Ex Ante Perspective on Deregulation, Viewed Ex Post, 15 Resource & Energy Econ. 153 (1993).

Louis Kaplow, Human Capital Under an Ideal Income Tax, 80 Va. L. Rev. 1477 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, An Economic Analysis of Legal Transitions, 99 Harv. L. Rev. 509 (1986).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation, 53 Int’l. Econ. Rev. 487 (2012).

Louis Kaplow, On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy, 18 J. Econ. Persp. 159 (2004).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Income Transfers, 14 Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. 295 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, Fiscal Federalism and the Deductibility of State and Local Taxes Under the Federal Income Tax, 82 Va. L. Rev. 413 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply, 68 Nat’l Tax J. 1 (2015).

Louis Kaplow, A Note on Subsidizing Gifts, 58 J. Pub. Econ. 469 (1995).

Louis Kaplow, Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax, 14 J.L. Econ. & Org. (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Public Goods and the Distribution of Income, 50 Eur. Econ. Rev. 1627 (2006).

Louis Kaplow, Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action, 94 Scandinavian J. Econ. 525 (1992).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 23 J. Legal Stud. 667 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Targeted Savings and Labor Supply, 18 Int’l. Tax & Pub. Fin. 507 (2011).

Louis Kaplow, Taxing Leisure Complements, 48 Econ. Inquiry 1065 (2010).

Louis Kaplow, On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal, 90 J. Pub. Econ. 1235 (2006).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences, 8 B.E. J. Econ. Analysis & Pol’y art. 40 (2008).

Keith Fogg, The Rooms Where it Happened, 20 Pitt. Tax Rev. 95 (2022).

Keith Fogg, Revisiting the Ten Deadly Sins Created in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, 20 Pitt. Tax Rev. 241 (2022).