The death of the income tax a progressive consumption tax and the path to fiscal reform

This book proposes that the solution to the problems of the current income tax is to abandon it and completely replace it with a progressive consumption tax collected electronically at the point of sale, which the book calls e-Tax. e-Tax is based on a European-style, credit value added tax (VAT) bec...

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Main Author: Goldberg, Daniel S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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