Governments frequently use proxies for deservingness—tags—to implement progressive tax and transfer policies. These proxies are often imperfect, leading to misclassification and inequities among ...

A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures. By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski. Format: Print; ShareBar. Citation. Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "A Note on the ...

Consider the history of progressivity, first introduced on a national scale with the income tax in 1913. The idea was, and still is, that tax rates go up like stair steps, ...

As he notes, "The Bush tax cuts of the early 2000s reduced the progressivity of federal taxes, but not that much." I would have guessed that the effect on progressivity was larger than this. The ...

Democrats and Republicans are debating whether an overhauled tax code should be as progressive as the current one, after the latest House GOP budget set up an aggressive framework for tax reform ...

In Praise Of Income Tax Progressivity Mar 25, 2011, 06:00am EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. You could make a list of history's worst tax systems.

Will the long-term burden of Australia's economic recovery fall disproportionately on younger and poorer households, or will a fairer, more progressive approach prevail, asks Gareth Hutchens.

I wrote last time about why the need for taxes is uncontroversial among economists. Virtually all economists agree that there are some goods and services, like public safety, that are more ...

Summary: Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who ...

The progressivity of Social Security benefits would increase by a little while benefit cuts relative to total retirement income would probably be slightly larger for low than high income households.

1, 2026. While Canadians of all income levels will benefit from the rate cut to the lowest bracket, such a cut further magnifies the extreme progressivity inherent in our tax rate structure. Let’s ...