Vol. 3 also issed as rev. 3rd ed. ; rev. 3rd edition of other vols. not planned.

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.

In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers recommendations for its improvement. The book is accessibly written for policy analysts and public officials who are dealing with specific property tax issues and for those concerned with property tax issues in general.

Proposals on United States income tax treaties. The book is a companion volume to "International aspects of United States income taxation" published in 1987. While the 1987 volume addressed various aspects of US internal income tax law as applied to international transactions, this volume deals with the special set of problems involved in treaties between the US and their trading partners by which it is sought to bring divergent national tax laws and incidents of taxation into reasonable accord.