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Arnold Harberger is another economist who made strong headway in the area of optimal taxation and whose theory has become a commonly used one for policy makers in the area of corporation income tax.

Joel Slemrod in his paper "Optimal Taxation and Optimal Tax System," argues that optimal tax theory, as it stood when Slemrod wrote this paper, was an insufficient guide to determine tax policies because policy makers had yet to find a way to implement a tax system that enticed individuals to work at their optimal level.



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