Showdown at Gucci Gulch
Showdown at Gucci Gulch

Author: Alan Murray

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-12-22

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0307761746

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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the single most sweeping change in the history of America's income tax. It was also the best political and economic story of its time. Here, in the anecdotal style of The Making of the President, two Wall Street Journal reporters provide the first complete picture of how this tax revolution went from an improbable dream to a widely hailed reality.

Shifting the Burden
Shifting the Burden

Author: Cathie J. Martin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-07-09

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780226508337

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Since World War II, the corporate tax burden has, overall, decreased enormously as a percentage of the government's total revenue. Until now, however, no explanation of this phenomenon has accounted for the periodic reforms—such as the dramatic 1986 Tax Reform Act—which significantly increase some corporate taxes. Remarkably accessible and rich in historical evidence, Shifting the Burden is the most compelling explanation to date of how our nation's tax policy is formulated. Cathie J. Martin shows how presidents' cultivation of allies within the business community and struggles within that community itself combine to shape tax policy.

The Flat Tax
The Flat Tax

Author: Robert E. Hall

Publisher: Hoover Press

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0817993134

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This new and updated edition of The Flat Tax—called "the bible of the flat tax movement" by Forbes—explains what's wrong with our present tax system and offers a practical alternative. Hall and Rabushka set forth what many believe is the most fair, efficient, simple, and workable tax reform plan on the table: tax all income, once only, at a uniform rate of 19 percent.

Tax Simplification
Tax Simplification

Author: Chris Evans

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789041159762

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Why are tax systems so complex? What are the causes of tax law complexity? What are the consequences? Why is tax simplification so difficult to achieve? These, and related questions, lie at the core of this volume on tax simplification featuring chapters by leading tax experts around the world. The quest for simplicity è^' or at least some move towards simplification è^' has been a fixation of governments and others for many years, but little appears to have been achieved. Tax simplification is the most widely quoted but the least widely observed of the usually stated goals of policy (equity and efficiency being the others). It has been used (and abused) as a primary justification for tax reform over the last century, and typically it is seen as è^-a good thingè^-- è^' to say that one is in favour of tax simplification is tantamount to stating that one is in favour of good as opposed to evil.

Federal Tax Policy
Federal Tax Policy

Author: Joseph A. Pechman

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780815769781

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Of current theories of the incidence of the major state and local taxes, assessment of the capacity of state and local governments to carry their debt burdens, and discussion of the property tax system and the state and local retirement system. Two chapters are devoted to the intergovernmental transfers.