Taxing Reforms: The Politics of the Consumption Tax in Japan, the United States, Canada and Australia

by Richard Eccleston

Proposals to introduce broad based consumption taxes have prompted considerable political controversy and conflict in recent decades. This book explores the politics of consumption tax reform in the four countries where the political resistance to such policies has been most acute: Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States. Using an institutional approach, the analysis in this book is animated by contemporary theoretical debates. These concern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845421205
• ISBN13: 9781845421205
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages