Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction and Motivation -- 1 The Need for Tax-System Analysis -- 2 Standard Optimal Tax Models -- Part II Building Blocks of Tax Systems -- 3 Multiple Behavioral Margins -- 4 Multiple Sources of Costs -- 5 Tax Base Elasticity...

The thunder of history: the origins and development of the new fiscal sociology / Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad -- "The unfair advantage of the few": the New Deal origins of "soak the rich" taxation / Joseph J. Thorndike -- What Americans think of taxes / Andrea Louise...

This commentary reflects on the recommendations of the Mirrlees Review on tax reform with a special focus on capital income taxation. Regarding the alternatives of moving to a consumption based tax system, the commentary discusses the relative merits of choosing an ACE system (allowance for...