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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Marion and Muehlegger 2008<br />

Study deadweight cost from taxing diesel fuels, focusing on evasion<br />

Diesel fuel used for business purposes (e.g. trucking) is taxed, but<br />

residential purposes (e.g. heating homes) is not<br />

Substantial opportunity to evade tax<br />

1993: government added red dye to residential diesel fuel<br />

Easy to monitor cheating by opening gas tank of a truck<br />

First document effect of dye reform on evasion<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 3: Effi ciency 78 / 105

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