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Title Fairness in taxation : exploring the principles / John G. Head, Lars Osberg, Leslie Green, A. Marguerite Cassin, Leo Panitch ; edited by Allan M. Maslove.

Publication Info. Toronto : Published by University of Toronto Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 159 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Research studies of the Fair Tax Commission of Ontario
Research studies of the Fair Tax Commission of Ontario.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword / Monica Townson -- Introduction / Allan M. Maslove -- 1. Tax-fairness: a conceptual, historical, and practical review / John G. Head -- Fairness principles in general -- Principles of fairness in taxation -- The sacrifice doctrines -- The Haig-Simons approach -- Changing priorities and paradigms -- The public-choice critique -- The optimal-tax critique -- The comprehensive tax base -- Income base versus comsumption base -- The progressive rate structure -- The international tax kaleidoscope -- The personal expenditure tax -- Flat-rate indirect taxes on consumption and wage income -- Flate rate personal direct taxation -- Personal-wealth taxation -- The role of personal-wealth taxes under alternative systems of income and consumption taxation -- Alternative forms of personal-wealth taxation -- Recent trends in personal-weatlth taxation -- Concluding reflections -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2. What's fair? The problem of equity in taxation / Lars Osberg -- 1. Examples of equity -- 2. Taxation and the voerall impact of government -- 3. The "sometimes" existence of trade-offs -- 4. Time and fairness -- 5. Horizontal equity -- 6. User fees -- 7. Vertical equity -- 8. Intergenerational equity -- 9. Process equity -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Concepts of equity in taxation / Leslie Green -- The primacy of fairness -- Horizontal and vertical equity -- Interstitial equity -- Distributive equity -- Libertarian views -- Utilitarian views -- Egalitarian justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Equitable and fair: widening the circle / A. Marguerite Cassin -- Tax: the technical is political -- Women and tax: everyday world as problematic -- Women, tax, and the regime of rationality -- Conceptual practices of power -- Equity and fairness -- Widening the circle -- Notes -- Bibliograpy -- 5. Beyond the crisis of the tax state? From fair taxation to structural reform / Leo Panitch -- Introduction: states and taxes -- The crisis of progressive taxation -- "Fair taxation": getting beyond appearances -- What is fair in public finance? -- Distributive justice in political philosophy -- From fair taxation to structural reform -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on contributors.
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Subject Tax incidence.
Tax incidence.
Tax incidence -- Canada.
Canada.
Tax incidence -- Ontario.
Ontario.
Progressive taxation.
Progressive taxation.
Progressive taxation -- Canada.
Progressive taxation -- Ontario.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Head, John G., author.
Osberg, Lars, 1946- author.
Green, Leslie, author.
Cassin, A. Marguerite, author.
Panitch, Leo, author.
Maslove, Allan M., editor.
Ontario. Fair Tax Commission.
Other Form: Print version: Fairness in taxation. Toronto : Published by University of Toronto Press in cooperation with the Fair Tax Commission of the Government of Ontario, ©1993 (DLC) 93180270 (OCoLC)29317482
ISBN 9781442623293 (electronic book)
1442623292 (electronic book)
9780802074591
0802074596
Standard No. ZBWT00482849