The Spanish Fiscal Transition (eBook)

Tax Reform and Inequality in the Late Twentieth Century

Sara Torregrosa Hetland (Autor)

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2021 | 1st ed. 2021
XVIII, 237 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-79541-2 (ISBN)

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This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality. Between 1977 and 1986, Spain underwent a comprehensive tax reform which shaped its fiscal system until today. It was made in connection with the transition to democracy and indeed was understood as a fundamental part of the political change. The book situates the reform both within Spanish history and international trends in tax systems and connects it to the expansion of the welfare state and regional decentralization in Spain. The analysis reveals that the tax system failed to attain progressivity, and significant levels of fraud had a noticeable impact on inequality. Because of this, fiscal redistribution remained limited. In the new political economy of the second globalization, late democratic and fiscal transitioners were unable to emulate the path of the welfare state forerunners.

Sara Torregrosa Hetland is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Economic History in Lund University, Sweden. She previously obtained a Degree in History from the University of Alicante and completed her Ph.D. in Economic History at the University of Barcelona (2016). Her main areas of work are the history of taxation, inequality, and public policies, in Western Europe and Latin America, from the late 19th century to the present.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 237 p. 32 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Fiscal reform in Spain • Fiscal sociology • History of Finance • History of Taxation • Inequality in Spain • Late Francoism • progressive income tax • Spanish economic governance • Spanish economic growth • Spanish Economic History • Spanish fiscal transition • Spanish GDP • Spanish stagnation • Spanish tax reform • The political economy of tax • welfare state development
• ISBN-10: 3-030-79541-1 / 3030795411
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-79541-2 / 9783030795412