Learning to Love Form 1040: Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax

by Lawrence Zelenak and Mark C. Gridley

No one likes paying taxes, much less the process of filing tax returns. For years, would-be reformers have advocated replacing the return-based mass income tax with a flat tax, federal sales tax, or some combination thereof. Congress itself has commissioned studies on the feasibility of a system of exact withholding. But might the much-maligned return-based taxation method serve an important yet overlooked civic purpose? In Learning to Love Form 1040...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022601892X
• ISBN13: 9780226018928
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"