Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality

Herausgeber: Slemrod, Joel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains nine research papers by economists on tax progressivity - how the tax burden is borne across income classes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521587761
• ISBN-10: 052158776X
• Artikelnr.: 35455938

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Joel Slemrod
2. Trends in Federal tax progressivity, 1980-93 Richard Kasten, Frank Sammartino and Eric Toder
Comments William G. Gale
3. The lifetime incidence of state and local taxes: measuring changes during the 1980s Gilbert Metcalf
Comments Robert P. Inman
4. Trends in income inequality: the impact of, and implications for, tax policy Lynn A. Karoly
Comments David M. Cutler
5. The efficiency cost of increased progressivity Robert K. Triest
Comments Gary Burtless
6. On the high-income Laffer curve Joel Slemrod
Comments C. Eugene Steuerle
7. Tax progressivity and household portfolios: descriptive evidence from the surveys of consumer finances John Karl Scholz
Comments Roger H. Gordon
8. Progressivity of capital gains taxation with optimal portfolio selection Michael Haliassos and Andrew B. Lyon
Comments James M. Poterba
9. Perceptions of fairness in the crucible of tax policy Steven M. Sheffrin
Comments Jane G. Gravelle
10. Progressive taxation, equity and tax design Richard A. Musgrave
Index.