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2006

President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

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The Digital Vat (D-Vat), Richard Thompson Ainsworth Jan 2006

The Digital Vat (D-Vat), Richard Thompson Ainsworth

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The most sustained U.S. tax policy debate of the past 30 years concerns proposals to replace and/ or supplement the Federal Income Tax with a consumption tax. Public finance economists and legal tax policy scholars challenged and defended the current income tax system on grounds of fairness, efficiency, and simplicity.

This debate over revamping the national taxing scheme has not been argued purely in the academic forum. Concrete legislative proposals have been advanced for a national retail sales tax, a European-style Value Added Tax, as well as a whole host of what David Bradford calls "the two-tiered consumption taxes."

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