The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax
Author: John F. Witte
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780299102043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John F. Witte
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780299102043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steffen Ganghof
Publisher: ECPR Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0954796683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marginal income tax rates in advanced industrial countries have fallen dramatically since the mid-1980s, but levels and progressivity of income taxation continue to differ strongly across countries. This study offers a new perspective on both observations. It blends theoretical inquiry with focused quantitative analysis and in-depth investigation of seven countries: Germany, Australia and New Zealand as well as Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The Politics of Income Taxation highlights the equity-efficiency tradeoffs that structure the politics of income taxation, and analyses how income taxes are embedded in broader tax systems. It explains the limited but enduring importance of political parties and democratic institutions. Finally, the study paints a nuanced picture of the role of globalisation and thus sheds light on the pros and cons of tax coordination at European and international levels.
Author: Ruud A. de Mooij
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2021-02-26
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1513511777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book describes the difficulties of the current international corporate income tax system. It starts by describing its origins and how changes, such as the development of multinational enterprises and digitalization have created fundamental problems, not foreseen at its inception. These include tax competition—as governments try to attract tax bases through low tax rates or incentives, and profit shifting, as companies avoid tax by reporting profits in jurisdictions with lower tax rates. The book then discusses solutions, including both evolutionary changes to the current system and fundamental reform options. It covers both reform efforts already under way, for example under the Inclusive Framework at the OECD, and potential radical reform ideas developed by academics.
Author: Susan B. Hansen
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nathan J. Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-30
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0521514584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using income surveys and various political-economic data, this book shows that income inequality is fundamental to the dynamics of US politics.
Author: Frank Chodorov
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 161016427X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sheldon D. Pollack
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780271038896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author examines federal tax policy over the past twenty years, through 1994, and shows how an assortment of players, politicians, and lawyers have made for erratic policy and a tangled tax system, and assesses the idea of a flat tax. UP.
Author: Kenneth Scheve
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0691178291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising—they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.
Author: Robert Stanley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993-07-08
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0195363248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sophisticated and accessible application of the newest theoretical work in public-policy history and legal studies, this book is a detailed account of how a permanent income tax was enacted into law in the United States. The tax originated as an apology for the aggressive manipulation of other forms of taxation, especially the tariff, during the Civil War. Levied with very low rates on a small proportion of the population and raising little revenue, the early tax was designed to preserve imbalances in the structure of wealth and opportunity, rather than to ameliorate or abolish them, by strengthening the status quo against fundamental attacks by the political left and right. This book shows that the early course of income taxation was more clearly the product of centrist ideological agreement, despite occasional divergences, than of "conservative-liberal" allocative conflict.
Author: Molly C. Michelmore
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-12-30
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0812206746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans have come to hate government but continue to demand the security it provides. Tracing the development of taxing and spending policy over the course of the twentieth century, Michelmore uncovers the origins of today's antitax and antigovernment politics in choices made by liberal state builders in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. By focusing on two key instruments of twentieth-century economic and social policy, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the federal income tax, Tax and Spend explains the antitax logic that has guided liberal policy makers since the earliest days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Grounded in careful archival research, this book reveals that the liberal social compact forged during the New Deal, World War II, and the postwar years included not only generous social benefits for the middle class—including Social Security, Medicare, and a host of expensive but hidden state subsidies—but also a commitment to preserve low taxes for the majority of American taxpayers. In a surprising twist on conventional political history, Michelmore's analysis links postwar liberalism directly to the rise of the Republican right in the last decades of the twentieth century. Liberals' decision to reconcile public demand for low taxes and generous social benefits by relying on hidden sources of revenues and invisible kinds of public subsidy, combined with their persistent defense of taxpayer rights and suspicion of "tax eaters" on the welfare rolls, not only fueled but helped create the contours of antistate politics at the core of the Reagan Revolution.