A Short & Happy Guide to Tax Policy

What Is Taxed

Joel S. Newman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2022
West Academic Press (Verlag)
9781685612085 (ISBN)

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Would taxing spending (sales taxes, value added taxes, or annual consumption taxes) be better than taxing income or wealth? Perhaps we should tax all of them. In fact, we do. This book considers each of these ways of funding government - how they work, and what makes them good or bad.

We spend a fair amount of time in law school talking about the taxation of income. What about taxing other things, like spending, wealth, luxury and sin? What about funding government in other ways, like borrowing money, printing money, building toll bridges, and selling lottery tickets?

This Short and Happy Guide considers all of these possibilities. Would taxing spending (sales taxes, value added taxes, or annual consumption taxes) be better than taxing income or wealth? Perhaps we should tax all of them. In fact, we do. This book considers each of these ways of funding government—how they work, and what makes them good or bad.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Short & Happy Guides
Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	129 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
ISBN-13	9781685612085 / 9781685612085
Zustand	Neuware