Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
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Author | : Kevin A. Hassett |
Publisher | : A E I Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Tax experts across the political spectrum agree that the current rate structure is not rational and that potential gains from reform could be remarkable. Accordingly, tax reform is widely viewed as desirable. However, there is not a clear consensus on what reforms are most desirable or feasible. In Toward Fundamental Tax Reform, eleven leading tax scholars, including a Nobel Prize winner, outline their ideas about tax reform. The original essays provide readers with concise but varying perspectives on the possibilities of tax reform. They also focus attention on key questions in the scholarly debate: Would a different tax code dramatically alter the functioning of the economy? How much damage does the current law do? Can relatively small changes to the tax code deliver most of the benefits of more dramatic reforms like the flat tax? Are political forces that oppose efficient tax systems simply too powerful to overcome? Will tax reform inevitably harm the poor? Can a tax reform, if enacted, be sustained?
Author | : Henry Aaron |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780815707295 |
The tax system profoundly affects countless aspects of private behavior. It is a powerful policy influence on the distribution of income and it is the one aspect of government that almost every citizen cannot avoid. With tax reform high on the political agenda, this book brings together studies of leading tax economists and lawyers to assess the various reform proposals and examine the effects of tax reform in several distinct areas. Together, these studies and comments on them present a balanced evaluation of professional opinion on the issues that will be critical in the tax reform debate. The book addresses annual and lifetime distributional effects, saving, investment, transitional problems, simplification, home ownership and housing prices, charitable groups, international taxation, financial intermediaries and insurance, labor supply, and health insurance. In addition to Henry Aaron and William Gale, the contributors include Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley; David Bradford, Princeton University; Charles Clotfelter, Duke University; Eric Engen, Federal Reserve; Don Fullerton, University of Texas; Jon Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patric Hendershott, Ohio State; David Ling, University of Florida; Ronald Perlman, Covington & Burling; Diane Lim Rogers, Congressional Budget Office; John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin; Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan; and Robert Triest, University of California, Davis.
Author | : George R. Zodrow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521084901 |
Tax reform debates in the United States have for some time been dominated by the question of whether the existing corporate and individual income tax system should be replaced with some form of a national consumption tax. This book contains essays by a group of internationally recognized tax experts who describe the current state of the art in economic thinking on the issue of whether fundamental tax reform is preferable to continued incremental reform of the existing income tax. The collection covers a wide range of tax policy issues related to consumption tax reforms, including their economic effects, distributional consequences, effects on administrative and compliance costs, transitional issues and the political aspects of fundamental tax reform, and international comparisons.
Author | : John W. Diamond |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0262042479 |
Papers presented at a conference held at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, in Apr. 2006.
Author | : Kevin A. Hassett |
Publisher | : American Enterprise Institute |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780844741123 |
Transition costs surround debates over fundamental tax reform. Calculations of transition costs have followed the setup pioneered by Alan Auerbach and Larry Kotlikoff. In this volume, the authors focus on the most critical transition issues from the political perspective.
Author | : Steven G. Hannaford |
Publisher | : Nova Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781622579600 |
The President and leading Members of Congress have stated that fundamental tax reform is a major policy objective for the 112th Congress. Some Members have said that fundamental tax reform is needed in order to raise a large amount of additional revenue, which is necessary to reduce high forecast budget deficits and the sharply rising national debt. Congressional interest has been expressed in both a major overhaul of the U.S. tax system and the feasibility of levying a consumption tax. Some proponents of reform argue that the tax base should be broadened by reducing or eliminating many tax expenditures. An alternative to increasing tax revenues is cutting spending. Thus, Members are faced with considering the best mix of tax increases and spending cuts in order to reduce deficits and slow the growth of the national debt. This book examines major fiscal reform proposals for tax reform with a focus on business tax reform and the extension of the "Bust Tax Cuts".
Author | : Bruce Bartlett |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-01-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451646267 |
A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time. THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its inequity, and frustrated our ability to govern ourselves. By tracing the history of our own tax system and assessing the way other countries have solved similar problems, Bruce Bartlett explores the surprising answers to all these issues, giving a sense of the tax code’s many benefits—and its inevitable burdens. From one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time, The Benefit and the Burden is a thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform.
Author | : William M. Gentry |
Publisher | : A E I Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780844770857 |
The authors describe the major effects of fundamental tax reform on corporate financial policy and summarize economists' knowledge of the magnitude of these different effects.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen R. Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : LAW |
ISBN | : 9781622571888 |
This book examines current proposals in the 112th Congress relating to tax reform. The President and leading members of Congress have stated that fundamental tax reform is a major policy objective. These policymakers have said that fundamental tax reform is needed in order to raise a large amount of additional revenue, which is necessary to reduce high forecast budget deficits and the sharply rising national debt. Congressional interest has been expressed in both a major overhaul of the U.S. tax system and the feasibility of levying a consumption tax. Some proponents of reform argue that the tax base should be broadened by reducing or eliminating many tax expenditures. An alternative to increasing tax revenues is cutting spending. Thus, Members are faced with considering the best mix of tax increases and spending cuts in order to reduce deficits and slow the growth of the national debt.