A comparison is made of a number of income averaging procedures on the basis of selected performance criteria. The main conclusion which emerges is that the Australian income averaging procedure, currently applied to primary producers, has a number of defects. Several of the alternative income...

An efficient procedure is proposed for making welfare payments to low income farm families. This is a negative income tax. It uses the income tax system for linking directly transfer payments to income needs, without unduly adverse effects on resource allocation. The negative income tax proposal...

The current debate on the taxation of business income highlights the need for the tax to not distort investment decisions. A tax on business income that permits immediate expensing of all outlays (including investment outlays) is shown to be a tax on pure profits, whereas a true income tax that...