Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Rethinking Wealth and Taxes PDF Author: Geoffrey Poitras
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1839106158
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Book Description
Taxes on the wealthy are a topic sure to incite venomous rants from both right-wing and left-wing ideologues. The topic attracts conflicting interpretations and policy recommendations, and generates proposals for tax reform that consume political debate. All this activity takes place against an opaque backdrop of empirical evidence dealing with the distribution of wealth and income, and tax avoidance and tax evasion by corporations and wealthy individuals. Rethinking Wealth and Taxes explores these problems and considers the possibilities for increasing taxes on wealth to address the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and income.