Author: William Raymond GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Theory and Practice of Modern Taxation
Author: William Raymond GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
Principles of Taxation in the United States
Author: Fabio AmbrosioPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429777264
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Taxation is a discipline that does not receive sufficient academic attention. It is typically viewed as a subset of law, accounting, public policy, economics, or finance. In this respect, most academic efforts in the field of taxation are shadowed by a mother discipline. There is currently an unprecedented need to approach tax pedagogy in a way that is independent of another discipline. This book caters to that real and unmet need in tax pedagogy. One of the book’s advantages is that it is not tied to a specific tax year and does not coddle the reader with volumes of time-sensitive information. In this book the tax year is never the focus, as the center stage is reserved for teaching the principles and skills necessary to independently find answers. The reader will learn to appreciate the complexity of the American tax system and will be endowed with the contextual understanding necessary to formulate educated opinions about how taxes work and, most importantly, why. Contrary to common belief, taxation in the United States has remained fairly stable for the last 100 years. This book uses the federal individual income tax as a vehicle to unveil the mechanics that make up the American tax system. This book is essential reading for students taking a first course in taxation, at the undergraduate or graduate level, as part of programs in accounting, law, public administration, or business at large.
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TAXATION
Author: DAVID AMES. WELLSPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033253533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation
Author: Richard F. DyePublisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
ISBN: 9781558442047
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The land value tax is the focus of this Policy Focus Report, Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation. A concept dating back to Henry George, the land value tax is a variant of the property tax that imposes a higher tax rate on land than on improvements, or taxes only the land value. Many other types of changes in property tax policy, such as assessment freezes or limitations, have undesirable side effects, including unequal treatment of similarly situated taxpayers and distortion of economic incentives. The land value tax can enhance both the fairness and the efficiency of property tax collection, with few undesirable effects; land is effectively in fixed supply, so an increase in the tax rate on land value will raise revenue without distorting the incentives for owners to invest in and use their land. A land value tax has also been seen as a way to combat urban sprawl by encouraging density and infill development. Authors Richard F. Dye and Richard W. England examine the experience of those who have implemented the land value tax -- more than 30 countries around the world, and in the United States, several municipalities dating back to 1913, when the Pennsylvania legislature permitted Pittsburgh and Scranton to tax land values at a higher rate than building values. A 1951 statute gave smaller Pennsylvania cities the same option to enact a two-rate property tax, a variation of the land value tax. About 15 communities currently use this type of tax program, while others tried and rescinded it. Hawaii also has experience with two-rate taxation, and Virginia and Connecticut have authorized municipalities to choose a two-rate property tax. The land value tax has been subjected to studies comparing jurisdictions with and without it, and to legal challenges. A land value tax also raises administrative issues, particularly in the area of property tax assessments. Land value taxation is an attractive alternative to the traditional property tax, especially to much more problematic types of property tax measures such as assessment limitations, the authors conclude. A land value tax is best implemented if local officials use best assessing practices to keep land and improvement values up to date; phase in dual tax rates over several years; and include a tax credit feature in those communities where land-rich but income-poor citizens might suffer from land value taxation.
The Ideologies of Taxation
Author: Louis EisensteinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674046110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Originally published in 1961, The Ideologies of Taxation is a classic of taxationÑa long-unavailable volume that remains uniquely applicable today. Louis Eisenstein starts from the idea that the tax system in a democracy is shaped by competing factions, each seeking to minimize its burden. Because few people are convinced by appeals to self-interest, factions must give reasons, which are skillfully elaborated into systems of belief or ideologies. EisensteinÕs aim is to examine (and debunk) three major ideologies used to justify various reforms of the tax system. The ideology of ability holds that taxes should be apportioned based on ability to pay and that this is properly measured by income or wealth. The ideology of deterrents is concerned with high taxes on private enterpriseÑlow and flat taxes are desired lest the wealthy reduce their work efforts and savings. The ideology of equity is focused on equal treatment of similarly situated individuals. Eisenstein shows, with sharp wit and an instinct for the jugular, how each of these ideologies is plagued with contradictions, incompleteness, and, in some cases, self-serving claims.
The Income Tax
Author: Edwin R A SeligmanPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498165310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice
Author: Edwin Robert Anderson SeligmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Progressive taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Theory and Practice of Taxation
Author: David Ames WellsPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230298030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...backward, and by relation or fiction make that a law at any antecedent period of the same day which was not so before the approval. The Constitution can not be abrogated by construction. The law prescribes a rule for the future, not for the past. And this in a republican government is a doctrine of vital importance to the security and protection of the citizen."--Potter's Dwarris on Statutes, p. 101. In an elaborate opinion the general appraisers concluded that the act of 1897 did not become operative until it had received the signature of the President, but this conclusion was so distasteful to the Government that the decision was "withheld for review." Upon being carried into the courts, the decisions were all against the Government, which reluctantly abandoned its absurd and unjust pretensions. Having before it the procedure of certain European countries, where power is conferred on the executive to raise or lower duties by decree, and to make a decree operative at once, it thought to introduce the same procedure in the conduct of the United States Treasury in tariff matters. In the light of this attempt, and of the onerous, inquisitorial, and despicable rules laid down as to the inspection of baggage of American citizens returning from abroad, it may be doubted if the customs policy of the country has ever been influenced so directly in favour of private greed and petty finance. It would seem to be clear, therefore, that a tax that is not levied proportionally or, what is the same thing, equally and uniformly upon all subjects in the same field of competition--as, for example, upon all persons engaged in the same business or profession, or upon all property of the same kind and all profit or income (less exemptions in...
The Income Tax
Author: Edwin R. A. SeligmanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265184240
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Excerpt from The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad It may appear to some that too much attention has been paid to the historical side of the subject. It seemed to me, however, that the most important lesson to be learned from experience was the gradual transition in public sentiment from a position of uncompromising hostility to one of virtual acquiescence. Such a lesson, however, can be impressed only after a full and thorough presentation of the facts. This, apart from the inherent interest of the matter, must be my excuse for attempting an exhaustive statement, not only of the legislation and of the parliamentary history, but also of the scientific as well as of the more ephemeral literature of the topic, in the most important countries from which we have a lesson to learn. In this investigation, especially so far as England is concerned. Virtually no help was secured from any existing investigation, and I have therefore been compelled to make a pioneer study, with all its inevitable defects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.