Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices, and Implications

by John W. Diamond

Leading experts on tax policy examine the complex issues involved in fundamental tax reform, including the relative merits of income-based and consumption-based taxation.

Reform of the federal income tax system has become a perennial item on the domestic policy agenda of the United States, although there is considerable uncertainty over specifics. Indeed the recent report of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform recommended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042479
• ISBN13: 9780262042475
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher