Tax burdens vary for firms of different sizes due to their variable tendency to seek exemptions or evade taxes.

Analysis of fiscal policy in the USA, with particular reference to the effect of personal taxation exemptions on various segments of the taxpaying population and on income tax revenues and effective tax rates - questions the validity of exemptions in relation to the present-day basic cost of living, considers alternatives to the present system of uniform per capita exemption, and includes comment on relevant legislation. Bibliography pp. 209 to 216, and statistical tables.