Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Geoffrey Poitras

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Abstract: Taxes on the wealthy are a topic sure to incite venomous rants from both right-wing and left-wing ideologues. The topic attracts conflicting interpretations and policy recommendations, and generates proposals for tax reform that consume political debate. All this activity takes place against an opaque backdrop of empirical evidence dealing with the distribution of wealth and income, and tax avoidance and tax evasion by corporations and wealthy individuals. Rethinking Wealth and Taxes explores these problems and considers the possibilities for increasing taxes on wealth to address the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and income.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781839106149
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Defining wealth and taxes on the wealthy , pp 17-51

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Ch 2 Raising government revenue , pp 52-76

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Ch 3 State revenue from antiquity to the modern income tax , pp 77-110

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Ch 4 Public economics of taxing the wealthy , pp 112-148

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Ch 5 Taxing the wealthy across jurisdictions , pp 149-187

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Ch 6 Reforming taxes on equity capital , pp 188-210

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