Taxing Ourselves, third edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes - Couverture souple

Bakija, Jon; Slemrod, Joel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 026269302X ISBN 13 : 9780262693028

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2004

Synopsis

The third edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, providing detailed discussion of the current system and alternative proposals, an overview of principles that should govern tax policy, and a voter's guide to the tax policy debate.

To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the two by presenting in clear nontechnical language the key issues in tax reform: who should pay taxes, how taxes affect the economy, and whether to reform or replace the current tax system. The authors discuss various alternative proposals in detail, including the flat tax and the sales tax, but they are not advocates for any of them; instead, they provide readers with the knowledge and the tools—including an informative overview of the U.S. tax system and an invaluable voter's guide to the tax policy debate—to make their own informed choices about how we should tax ourselves. The third edition of this popular guide has been extensively revised and updated to cover all changes in tax laws through May 2003 and to reflect the most recent research and relevant data. It also provides new or expanded treatment of issues in the current debate, including tax cuts and whether they stimulate the economy, savings incentives, double taxation of corporate income, the estate tax, corporate tax shelters, and the economic and political effects of budget deficits.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jon Bakija is Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College and Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, 2007-2008.

Joel Slemrod is Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, where he is also Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 026269302X
• ISBN 13: 9780262693028
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible