A Comparative Analysis of Tax Progressivity in the United States: a Reexamination

Donald W. Kiefer
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Public Finance Review, 1991, vol. 19, issue 1, 94-108

Abstract: This article reexamines the measures of tax progressivity in the fifty states derived Abstract by Greene and Balkan (1987) and finds them to be substantially in error. Recalcu lated progressivity indexes provided in this article exhibit far less deviation than the indexes published by Greene and Balkan.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1177/109114219101900106

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