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.
The author examines federal tax policy over the past twenty years, through 1994, and shows how an assortment of players, politicians, and lawyers have made for erratic policy and a...
The official account of the advisory panel formed by Presi-dent George W. Bush to identify major problems in the U.S.Federal Tax Code and to recommend options to make the codesimpler,...
Yet evolution-and even revolution-do occur. The second edition has been updated with a look at tax policy during the George W. Bush presidency.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This report attempts to provide information about these topics in a clear, concise, & easily understandable manner for a nontechnical audience. Bibliography. Glossary. Charts & tables.
This work is a model for policy-oriented research efforts, but it also supplies a major (and very timely) addition to the evidence that must inform future proposals for tax reform.
State Tax Policy: A Political Perspective
John F. Witte. 6 David Braybrooke and Charles E. Lindblom , A Strategy of Decision ( New York : Free Press , 1963 ) ... and John F. Padgett , “ Bounded Rationality in Budgetary Research , ” American Political Science Review 74 ( 1980 ) ...
Tax policy summary of estimates of the costs of the federal tax system: report to congressional requesters.
This book examines the detail which is where vested interests do their damage.