Tax systems

"Despite its theoretical elegance, the standard optimal tax model has significant limitations. In this book, Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer argue that tax analysis must move beyond the emphasis on optimal tax rates and bases to consider such aspects of taxation as administration, complian...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Slemrod, Joel, Gillitzer, Christian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2014
Series:Zeuthen lecture book series
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02204nmm a2200325 u 4500
001 EB002070008
003 EBX01000000000000001210098
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 220922 ||| eng
020 |a 9780262319003 
020 |a 0262319004 
050 4 |a HJ2305 
100 1 |a Slemrod, Joel 
245 0 0 |a Tax systems  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer 
260 |a Cambridge, Massachusetts  |b The MIT Press  |c 2014 
300 |a x, 223 pages  |b illustrations 
653 |a SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law 
653 |a Taxation 
653 |a ECONOMICS/Public Economics 
700 1 |a Gillitzer, Christian  |e author 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b MITArchiv  |a MIT Press eBook Archive 
490 0 |a Zeuthen lecture book series 
028 5 0 |a 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026727.001.0001 
776 |z 9780262026727 
776 |z 0262026724 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262026727.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 336.2 
520 |a "Despite its theoretical elegance, the standard optimal tax model has significant limitations. In this book, Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer argue that tax analysis must move beyond the emphasis on optimal tax rates and bases to consider such aspects of taxation as administration, compliance, and remittance. Slemrod and Gillitzer explore what they term a tax-systems approach, which takes tax evasion seriously; revisits the issue of remittance, or who writes the check to cover tax liability (employer or employee, retailer or consumer); incorporates administrative and compliance costs; recognizes a range of behavioral responses to tax rates; considers nonstandard instruments, including tax base breadth and enforcement effort; and acknowledges that tighter enforcement is sometimes a more socially desirable way to raise revenue than an increase in statutory tax rates. Policy makers, Slemrod and Gillitzer argue, would be well advised to recognize the interrelationship of tax rates, bases, enforcement, and administration, and acknowledge that tax policy is really tax-systems policy."--Publisher's website