Policy Standards For A Good Tax

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Taxes and Taxing Jurisdictions
Policy Standards for a Good Tax
Taxes as Transaction Costs
Maxims of Income Tax Planning
Tax Research
Taxable Income from Business Operations
Property Acquisitions and Cost Recovery Deductions
Property Dispositions
Nontaxable Exchanges
Sole Proprietorships
The Corporate Taxpayer
The Choice of Business Entity
Jurisdictional Issues in Business Taxation
The Individual Tax Formula
Compensation and Retirement Planning
Investment and Personal Financial Planning
Tax Consequences of Personal Activities
The Tax Compliance Process

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A tax meets the standard of sufficiency if it is easy for people to pay the tax:

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The federal government is not required to pay interest on the national debt.

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A static forecast of the revenue effect of a tax rate change assumes that the tax base does not change.

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A dynamic forecast of the revenue effect of a tax rate change assumes that the tax base does not change.

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The federal Social Security tax burden on employees has not increased since 1990 because the tax rate has not increased since that year.

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If State H increases its sales tax rate by 1%, its sales tax revenue must also increase by 1%.

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The city of Berne recently enacted a 10% tax on the price of a subway ticket. Consequently, Mrs Lane now walks to work instead of taking the subway. Her behavior illustrates the substitution effect of a tax increase.

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Jurisdiction P recently increased its income tax rate. A taxpayer who reacts to the increase by working harder to earn more income is demonstrating the income effect of the rate increase.

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According to supply-side economic theory, a decrease in tax rates for high-income individuals could actually cause an increase in tax revenue.

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Supply-side economic theory holds that people who benefit from a tax rate reduction will spend their tax windfall on consumption goods.

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State use taxes are more convenient for individual consumers than state sales taxes.

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The Internal Revenue Service's cost of collecting $100 of tax revenue is about $3.

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A convenient tax has low compliance costs for taxpayers and low collection and enforcement costs for the government.

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According to the classical concept of efficiency, an efficient tax should be neutral in its effect on free market allocations of economic resources.

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According to the Keynesian concept of efficiency, an efficient tax should be neutral in its effect on free market allocations of economic resources.

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A tax meets the standard of efficiency if it generates enough revenue to pay for the public goods and services provided by the government.

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A provision in the tax law designed to encourage a specific economic behavior is a tax preference.

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A tax should result in either horizontal or vertical equity across taxpayers.

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Changes in the tax law intended to make the measurement of taxable income more precise usually make the tax law less complex.

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Vertical equity focuses on measurement of the tax base, and horizontal equity focuses on the tax rate structure.

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