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Incremental Versus Fundamental Tax Reform And The Top One Percent, Deborah A. Geier
Incremental Versus Fundamental Tax Reform And The Top One Percent, Deborah A. Geier
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This article describes the historical shift from consumption taxation at the federal level to income taxation with the enactment of the 16th amendment (the intent of which was chiefly to tax the capital income of the wealthy) and the incremental shifts since then back toward consumption taxation (which frees capital from tax) through expansion of both the payroll taxes as well as the consumption tax features of our current hybrid income/consumption tax that target the middle class.
It then addresses the issue of whether we ought to expand consumption tax treatment to the very wealthy by reviewing two recently published …
Business Law Reform In The United States: Thinking Too Small?, Douglas C. Michael
Business Law Reform In The United States: Thinking Too Small?, Douglas C. Michael
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Dean Johan Henning presents the South African experience with business entity reform as one part of a coordinated whole. It included, for example, government funding for business, tax reforms, accounting and securities changes. Henning says that these reforms, though multi-faceted, had a uniform purpose: to use small business as an engine to improve the economy and to move “historically and socially disadvantaged groups” into the mainstream of the economy and the society.
These are noble goals and far reaching efforts, and a lot to ask of business entity reform. But because the South African experience was nonetheless successful by all …