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The Internal Revenue Code is riddled with features that allow U.S. taxpayers to reduce their federal tax liability by operating through tax haven companies. Some of these provisions are historic anomalies. Others are better understood as inadvertent loopholes than considered legislative grace....
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One of the most notable examples of U.S. tax exceptionalism is the taxation of U.S. citizens and legal permanent … residents (LPRs) on their worldwide income, regardless of residence. The United States also imposes broad and increasingly … onerous tax and financial reporting obligations on its citizens and LPRs. Worldwide taxation of U.S. expatriates dates to the …
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saying that this is not their burden to bear, and that those with the privileged status of race, income, wealth, and … justice?First, we must recognize that tax injustice is economic injustice, which leads directly to income and wealth …
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This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes … hardships are most pronounced for middle-and low-income families, whose incomes tend to be more volatile, and who tend to have … less access to low-cost borrowing. Second, currently the income tax system simultaneously helps and hurts families trying …
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income distribution. While inherited income is distributed fairly evenly across most of the population, it rises sharply at … economic income. Nevertheless, the relationship between the heir’s financial circumstances and his or her estate tax burden is … unearned income that inheritances represent. We should use that opportunity to reform, not repeal, the estate tax system so …
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with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …
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Although theoretical research on optimal capital taxation suggest to incorporate public opinions, the empirical … literature on preferences regarding capital taxation almost exclusively focusses on the emotionally loaded estate tax. This paper … presents a more comprehensive investigation of preferences towards different, tangible instruments of capital taxation beyond …
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Polling data suggest that Americans are concerned about rising economic inequality, yet the same polls reveal popular opposition to redistributive tax policies that would help mitigate inequality. Numerous commentators have drawn attention to this paradox, attempting to explain why voters would...
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positive response of labour taxation to changes in the general government debt and interest expenditure-to-GDP ratios. The …This paper investigates the relationship between government debt and labour taxation for a panel of 18 EU countries …
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The present study reports the findings of a survey conducted by the World Values Survey scientists in the United States on the question of whether governments should tax the rich and subsidize the poor. The sample size of 2166 consisted of individuals from all parts of the United States. A...
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