Governments frequently use proxies for deservingness—tags—to implement progressive tax and transfer policies. These proxies are often imperfect, leading to misclassification and inequities among ...

This paper evaluates Laffer curves produced by reforms to nonlinear income taxes, focusing on individual taxpayers. A reform puts a taxpayer on the “wrong” side of the Laffer curve if it increases ...

A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures. By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski. Format: Print; ShareBar. Citation. Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "A Note on the ...

Consider the history of progressivity, first introduced on a national scale with the income tax in 1913. The idea was, and still is, that tax rates go up like stair steps, ...

Democrats and Republicans are debating whether an overhauled tax code should be as progressive as the current one, after the latest House GOP budget set up an aggressive framework for tax reform ...

As he notes, "The Bush tax cuts of the early 2000s reduced the progressivity of federal taxes, but not that much." I would have guessed that the effect on progressivity was larger than this. The ...

I wrote last time about why the need for taxes is uncontroversial among economists. Virtually all economists agree that there are some goods and services, like public safety, that are more ...

In Praise Of Income Tax Progressivity Mar 25, 2011, 06:00am EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. You could make a list of history's worst tax systems.

Will the long-term burden of Australia's economic recovery fall disproportionately on younger and poorer households, or will a fairer, more progressive approach prevail, asks Gareth Hutchens.

The progressivity of Social Security benefits would increase by a little while benefit cuts relative to total retirement income would probably be slightly larger for low than high income households.