How should capital income be taxed to achieve efficiency and equity? In this detailed study, tax policy analyst Jane Gravelle brings together comprehensive estimates of effective tax rates on a wide variety of capital by type, industry, legal form, and method of financing, and across time. These...

Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Do we tax capital income? -- Does the United States tax capital income? / Joel Slemrod -- Comment / Reed Shuldiner -- Comment / Jane Gravelle -- Should we tax capital income? -- Should capital income be subject to consumption-based taxation? / George Zodrow --...