A Good Tax
Title | A Good Tax PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Youngman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Local finance |
ISBN | 9781558443426 |
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.
The Property Tax and Local Autonomy
Title | The Property Tax and Local Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael E. Bell |
Publisher | Lincoln Inst of Land Policy |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781558442061 |
This book examines the issues and consequences of a declining property tax base with respect to local government autonomy. Some of the nation's leading scholars provide their views on how the property tax effects intergovernmental relations, local autonomy, and education finance. --from publisher description
The Proper Tax Base
Title | The Proper Tax Base PDF eBook |
Author | Yariv Brauner |
Publisher | Kluwer Law International B.V. |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9041141987 |
Virtually all objections to taxation schemes spring from perceptions of unfairness. Is tax fairness possible? The question is certainly worth investigating in depth, and that is the purpose of this book. Today, as governments are busily making new tax rules in the wake of staggering budget deficits, is perhaps an appropriate time to pay heed to fairness so it can be incorporated as far as possible into tax reform. With twelve contributions from some of the world’s most respected international tax experts—including the late Paul McDaniel, in whose honor these essays were assembled—this invaluable book focuses on tax expenditure analysis, the quest for a just income tax, and division and/or harmonization of the income tax base among jurisdictions. Among the areas of taxation ripe for reform from a fairness point of view the authors single out the following: tax expenditure budget construction; tax expenditure reporting; modern welfare economics as a driver of tax reform; grantor trust rules; the notion of “horizontal equity”; the international tax norm of “income source”; transfer pricing; and jurisdictional application of VAT. Specific ongoing reforms in the United States, Australia, and other countries—as well a detailed analysis of the EU’s proposed common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB)—are also examined for fairness. As a timely, high-quality resource that effectively tackles an array of salient issues, this is a book that will be read and studied by tax practitioners, corporate tax experts, government tax policy makers, advisers and consultants on the reform and design of tax systems, and international organizations involved in standard setting related to tax administration, as well as academics and researchers.
The Individual Tax Base
Title | The Individual Tax Base PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie L. Malman |
Publisher | West Academic Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Income tax |
ISBN | 9780314917522 |
This concise casebook distills the major themes of taxation. It offers well-developed problems and discussion questions in every chapter. The book is designed to help teachers and students make sense of both law and policy, and demands that students read the Code in addition to the text. Like the first edition, this edition develops a running analysis of income-tax and consumption-tax elements in the Code. It also focuses on the social policy effects of the tax law. The second edition is fully updated through the 2009 Stimulus Act.
Making the Property Tax Work
Title | Making the Property Tax Work PDF eBook |
Author | Roy W. Bahl |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Students of public finance and fiscal decentralization in developing and transitional countries have long argued for more intensive use of the property tax. It would seem the ideal choice for financing local government services. Based on a Lincoln Institute conference held in October 2006, the chapters in this book take this argument one step further in drawing on recent experience with property tax policy and administration. Two main sets of issues are addressed. First, why hasn't the property tax worked well in most developing and transitional countries? Second, what can be done to make the property tax a more relevant source for local governments in those countries? The numerous advantages of the property tax as a local government revenue source are analyzed and discussed in detail as are the many perceived disadvantages.
The Individual Tax Base, Cases, Problems, and Policies in Federal Taxation
Title | The Individual Tax Base, Cases, Problems, and Policies in Federal Taxation PDF eBook |
Author | LAURIE L.. SUGIN MALMAN (LINDA F.. WALLACE, CLINTON G.) |
Publisher | West Academic Publishing |
Pages | 775 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781642426045 |
This concise casebook distills the major technical points and policy themes of taxation, with Part I devoted to introductory income tax materials, and Part II focusing on taxation of property transactions. The casebook is designed for a 3-4-credit introductory income tax course, or a 3-credit income tax course plus a 3-credit taxation of property transactions course. Each chapter includes well-developed problems and discussion questions that can help prompt classroom discussion (reformulated and updated to feature issues under the 2017 Tax Act). The book is designed to help teachers and students make sense of both law and policy, and it demands that students read the Code in addition to the text. The casebook develops a running analysis of income-tax and consumption-tax elements in the Code. It also focuses on the social policy effects of the tax law, with new notes and chapters introducing political economy concerns in tax policy and the concept of "democratic fairness," as well as additional material on the use of the tax code to carry out social policy. The third edition is fully updated through the 2017 Tax Act and includes guidance issued through early 2019.
Taxation
Title | Taxation PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199683697 |
Tax revenues pay for many public services, including roads, health care, and education. However, it has become a contentious political issue of public debate. In this volume, Stephen Smith explains its history and its main principles; arguing that we'd all benefit from an understanding of the role of taxation in society.