Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Trends in federal tax progressivity, 1980–93
- COMMENTS
- 3 The lifetime incidence of state and local taxes: measuring changes during the 1980s
- COMMENTS
- 4 Trends in income inequality: the impact of, and implications for, tax policy
- COMMENTS
- 5 The efficiency cost of increased progressivity
- COMMENTS
- 6 On the high-income Laffer curve
- COMMENTS
- 7 Tax progressivity and household portfolios: descriptive evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
- COMMENTS
- 8 Progressivity of capital gains taxation with optimal portfolio selection
- COMMENTS
- 9 Perceptions of fairness in the crucible of tax policy
- COMMENTS
- 10 Progressive taxation, equity, and tax design
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Trends in federal tax progressivity, 1980–93
- COMMENTS
- 3 The lifetime incidence of state and local taxes: measuring changes during the 1980s
- COMMENTS
- 4 Trends in income inequality: the impact of, and implications for, tax policy
- COMMENTS
- 5 The efficiency cost of increased progressivity
- COMMENTS
- 6 On the high-income Laffer curve
- COMMENTS
- 7 Tax progressivity and household portfolios: descriptive evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
- COMMENTS
- 8 Progressivity of capital gains taxation with optimal portfolio selection
- COMMENTS
- 9 Perceptions of fairness in the crucible of tax policy
- COMMENTS
- 10 Progressive taxation, equity, and tax design
- Index
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- Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994