Author: Robert W. McGeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The History of the Income Tax in the United States
Author: Robert W. McGeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The United States Federal Internal Tax History from 1861 to 1871
Author: Harry Edwin SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Taxes Have Consequences
Author: Arthur B. LafferPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1637585659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The definitive history of the effect of the income tax on the economy. Ever since 1913, when the United States first imposed the income tax via constitutional amendment, the top rate of that tax has determined the fate of the American economy. When the top rate has been high, as in the late 1910s, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1970s, the response of those with money and capital has been to curtail real economic activity in favor of protecting assets and income streams. Huge declines have come to the economy in these circumstances. The most brutal example was the Great Depression itself. When the top tax rate has been cut and held at reduced levels—as in the 1920s, the 1960s, in the long boom of the 1980s and 1990s, and briefly in the late 2010s—astonishing reversals have occurred. The rich have brought their money out of hiding and put it to work in the economy. The huge swings in the American economy since 1913 have had an inverse relationship to income tax rates.
The Income Tax
Author: Edwin Robert Anderson SeligmanPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584773855
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Seligman, Edwin R.A. The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory, and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged with a New Chapter. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003052763. ISBN 1-58477-385-5. Cloth. $140. * Reprint of second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman [1861-1939], an eminent economist and authority on tax issues, argued that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. This was a persuasive idea. "In fact, Professor Seligman's advocacy of the income tax in the various papers which were incorporated in [this book] was an important factor in educating the American public to the point where the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment and of the law of 1913 was possible": Columbia Law Review 15:292 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 852. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretical argument with a historical examination of income tax in Europe and the United States. In Part I he looks at the income tax in the middle ages, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. In Part II he covers the history of the income tax in the United States from the New England colonies through the income tax of 1913, and includes discussion of the historical antecedents of the Direct Tax Clause, a description of the historical context of the Civil War income tax and the income tax in the Confederacy, and a consideration of the constitutionality of the income tax. With a useful index and a thorough bibliography.
Income Taxes 1862-1962
Author: United States. Internal Revenue ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The United States Tax System
Author: United States. Internal Revenue ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Federal Taxation in America
Author: W. Elliot BrownleePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316760472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This authoritative and readable survey is a comprehensive historical overview of federal taxation and fiscal policy in the United States, extending from the era of the American Revolution to the present day. Brownlee relates the principal stages of federal taxation to the crises that led to their adoption, including but not limited to: the formation of the republic, the Civil War, World War I and II, and the challenges to government that took hold during the 1980s. In this third edition, Brownlee adds four new chapters covering the colonial era, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the 1920s, and the post-1945 era including the tax policies of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. It features expanded discussion of government expenditures, deficits and debt, public resources, counter-cyclical fiscal policy, and state and local taxation. Its interdisciplinary interpretation makes it perfect for scholars, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students.
Taxing the Rich
Author: Kenneth SchevePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178291
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising—they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.
Federal Taxation in America
Author: W. Elliot BrownleePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This brief survey is a comprehensive historical overview of the US federal tax system.
The United States Federal Internal Tax History from 1861 to 1871
Author: Harry Edwin SmithPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010849537
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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