Premised upon taxable income the regressive Value Added Tax or Goods and Services Tax through VAT/GST Tax Returns would become progressive in nature with a CPI adjusted cost of living allowance tax credit or rebate that solves the purchasing power of income index and the Fisher Equation allows...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Trends in Growth since the GFC -- Chapter 3. Credit, Employment and the Current Account -- Chapter 4. Capital Formation and Foreign Investment -- Chapter 5. Inflation and Monetary Developments -- Chapter 6. Policy and Analyses Chapter -- 7. Reflexive, not...

Revenue estimates for tax policy changes are typically made under the convention of a fixed set of economic assumptions, with a given level of nominal GDP and aggregate income. For a tax policy change as large and significant as an add-on value-added tax (VAT) or other consumption tax that...

I address the most fundamental yet routinely ignored issue in economics: that of distributive impact of the monetary system on the real economy. By reexamining the logical implications of token representation of value and Irving Fisher's theory of exchange, I argue that producers of value incur...