Constitutional Tax Structure

Constitutional Tax Structure

Author: Brian Swanson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1984559516

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All money falls into one of two categories: income or principal. Do you know the difference? Can you distinguish the gain derived from capital from the capital itself? Do you know how these financial resources are divided between the federal and state governments? Do you know how the Constitution taxes these resources differently and why? Do you know the difference between money that is profit and money that is property? Do you know how to properly distinguish between money earned from investment and money earned from employment? Do you understand that in a capitalist economy, nobody needs an income, but one cannot survive without capital? How does one get capital—where does it come from? After reading the Constitutional Tax Structure, you will know the answers to all these questions and more. Most importantly, you will understand how to distinguish capital from income in personal finance and learn why nobody should be paying an income tax on their capital.


Our Selfish Tax Laws

Our Selfish Tax Laws

Author: Anthony C. Infanti

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0262038242

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Why tax law is not just a pocketbook issue but a reflection of what and whom we, as a society, value. Most of us think of tax as a pocketbook issue: how much we owe, how much we'll get back, how much we can deduct. In Our Selfish Tax Laws, Anthony Infanti takes a broader view, considering not just how taxes affect us individually but how the tax system reflects our culture and society. He finds that American tax laws validate and benefit those who already possess power and privilege while starkly reflecting the lines of difference and discrimination in American society based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, immigration status, and disability. Infanti argues that instead of focusing our tax reform discussions on which loopholes to close or which deductions to allow, we should consider how to make our tax system reflect American ideals of inclusivity rather than institutionalizing exclusion. After describing the theoretical and intellectual underpinnings of his argument, Infanti offers two comparative case studies, examining the treatment of housing tax expenditures and the unit of taxation in the United States, Canada, France, and Spain to show how tax law reflects its social and cultural context. Then, drawing on his own work and that of other critical tax scholars, Infanti explains how the discourse surrounding tax reform masks the many ways that the American tax system rewards and reifies privilege. To counter this, Infanti urges us to work together to create a society with a tax system that respects and values all Americans.


Taxation

Taxation

Author: Stephen Smith

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0199683697

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Tax revenues pay for many public services, including roads, health care, and education. However, it has become a contentious political issue of public debate. In this volume, Stephen Smith explains its history and its main principles; arguing that we'd all benefit from an understanding of the role of taxation in society.


Taxation

Taxation

Author: Martin O'Neill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0192557629

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This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the provision of public goods and public services, to engage in direct or indirect forms of redistribution, and to mould the behaviour of individual citizens. As the contributors to this volume show, there are a number of pressing and thorny philosophical issues relating to the tax system, and these issues often connect in fascinating ways with foundational questions regarding property rights, public justification, democracy, state neutrality, stability, political psychology, and other moral and political issues. Many of these deep and fascinating philosophical questions about tax have not received as much sustained attention as they clearly merit. The aim of advancing the debate about tax in political philosophy has both general and more specific aspects, ranging across both over-arching issues regarding the tax system as a whole and more specific issues relating to particular forms of tax policy. Thinking clearly about tax is not an easy task, as much that is of central importance is missed if one proceeds at too great a level of abstraction, and issues of conceptual and normative importance often only come sharply into focus when viewed against real-world questions of implementation and feasibility. Serious philosophical work on the tax system will often therefore need to be interdisciplinary, and so the discussion in this book includes a number of scholars whose expertise spans across neighbouring disciplines to philosophy, including political science, economics, public policy, and law.


The Power to Tax

The Power to Tax

Author: Geoffrey Brennan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-10-31

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780521233293

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"First published 1980"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.


Our Constitution

Our Constitution

Author: Donald A. Ritchie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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WHY WAS THE CONSTITUTION NECESSARY?--WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT DID THE CONSTITUTION CREATE?--HOW IS THE CONSTITUTION INTERPRETED?