Fairness in Taxation : Exploring the Principles.
The papers in this volume explore the idea of distributive justice and fairness in taxation.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Heritage.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Monica Townson
- Introduction / Allan M. Maslove
- 1. Tax-fairness: a conceptual, historical, and practical review / John G. Head
- Fairness principles in general
- Principles of fairness in taxation
- The sacrifice doctrines
- The Haig-Simons approach
- Changing priorities and paradigms
- The public-choice critique
- The optimal-tax critique
- The comprehensive tax base
- Income base versus comsumption base
- The progressive rate structure
- The international tax kaleidoscope
- The personal expenditure tax
- Flat-rate indirect taxes on consumption and wage income
- Flate rate personal direct taxation
- Personal-wealth taxation
- The role of personal-wealth taxes under alternative systems of income and consumption taxation
- Alternative forms of personal-wealth taxation
- Recent trends in personal-weatlth taxation
- Concluding reflections
- Note
- Bibliography
- 2. What's fair? The problem of equity in taxation / Lars Osberg
- 1. Examples of equity
- 2. Taxation and the voerall impact of government
- 3. The "sometimes" existence of trade-offs
- 4. Time and fairness
- 5. Horizontal equity
- 6. User fees
- 7. Vertical equity
- 8. Intergenerational equity
- 9. Process equity
- 10. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3. Concepts of equity in taxation / Leslie Green
- The primacy of fairness
- Horizontal and vertical equity
- Interstitial equity
- Distributive equity
- Libertarian views
- Utilitarian views
- Egalitarian justice
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 4. Equitable and fair: widening the circle / A. Marguerite Cassin
- Tax: the technical is political
- Women and tax: everyday world as problematic
- Women, tax, and the regime of rationality
- Conceptual practices of power
- Equity and fairness
- Widening the circle
- Notes
- Bibliograpy
- 5. Beyond the crisis of the tax state? From fair taxation to structural reform / Leo Panitch
- Introduction: states and taxes
- The crisis of progressive taxation
- "Fair taxation": getting beyond appearances
- What is fair in public finance?
- Distributive justice in political philosophy
- From fair taxation to structural reform
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Notes on contributors.