Necessary and sufficient conditions for a set of commodity taxes to be Pareto efficient are derived. Unlike the literature on optimal taxation these conditions are derived without reference to a social welfare function. One of the necessary conditions derived by a revealed preference argument is particularly useful. It is shown to yield the Ramsey rule for single-person economies and some alternative rules for many-person economies. These rules have the desirable feature that they depend only upon the properties of the aggregate household demand functions and aggregate technology. © 1979.
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Harris, R. G. (1979). Efficient commodity taxation. Journal of Public Economics, 12(1), 27–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2727(79)90053-7
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