Taxation
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And it makes no mention of corporate taxation, even though rate cuts in the United States, and planned cuts in France and the United Kingdom, will inevitably lure investment and jobs away from Germany.
While some funding for expanding surgical services could come from taxation, health-care providers should also explore innovative financing options – such as “social justice models,” whereby people pay according to their means.
Not much, it is clear, can be gained from increased
taxation.
In contrast to the militant liberalism of the French tradition, this Neutralist liberal philosophy strives to prevent either side in the ongoing culture war from using the state’s coercive powers of
taxation
as a weapon in the struggle for men’s souls.
But reducing inequality requires higher levels of government spending and
taxation
(except when government is pursuing deficit spending to stimulate a depressed economy).
The state’s function should be to enact and enforce laws on corporate governance and
taxation
of managers’ compensation.
Like all economic activity, it flourishes when property rights are respected,
taxation
is efficient and purposeful, letters of credit are honored, tariffs and other barriers are removed, and so forth.
Ideally, there would be a shift from income
taxation
to a progressive consumption tax (the simplest example being a flat tax with a very high exemption).
After all, the overall real
taxation
level in China is already quite high, which means that doubling social spending from the current level without raising taxes further would require severe cuts in expenditures that chiefly benefit the ruling elites.
Now, the pressure is on for structural reforms covering everything from labor markets to
taxation.
In recent years, the inadequacies of existing global governance structures, particularly with regard to issues like
taxation
and employment, have become starkly apparent.
The national debt is deferred
taxation.
But a single market does not require a single social or industrial policy, far less a common
taxation
policy.
For example, if people thought that government borrowing was simply deferred taxation, they might save more to meet their expected future tax bill.
The distribution of competences between national and subnational levels, as well as the structure of taxation, was defined in a very different environment.
There is much to be said for that approach – not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, where direct and indirect
taxation
on employers and jobs accounts for half of the total tax take, while taxes on capital comprise only a fifth.
Third, economists should move beyond the (generally correct) observation that such distributional effects can be addressed through
taxation
and transfers, and work out how exactly that should happen.
In its rush to have westerners buy the banks, the IMF forgot one detail: to ensure that South Korea could recapture at least a fraction of those gains through
taxation.
In effect, the oligarchs will reduce direct
taxation
on themselves and increase indirect
taxation
on everyone – much like increasing the sales tax on all goods.
Under any such proposal, the burden of
taxation
would be shifted from the better off to those with less income and little or no wealth.
The problem with inequality is not only that it obstructs the pursuit of collective goals and the common good; it also erects structural barriers to development, for example, through meager or regressive
taxation
and underinvestment in education, health, or infrastructure.
Second, a sound fiscal strategy requires establishing, on the basis of prudent economic assumptions, an ambitious budgetary target for the medium term, determining what mix of
taxation
and expenditure cuts are required in order to achieve it, and then sticking to the plan throughout economic fluctuations.
This forgotten term, which dropped out of usage following World War II, referred to heavy
taxation
on sudden increases in profits.
Yeltsin’s gross indecisiveness on marching his political cronies and the mafia business community to the tax office (or jail) accounts for much of the difficulty; lack of broad based
taxation
at affordable rates is a key issue.
The new prize arose from a longstanding conflict between the interests of the better off in stable prices and the interests of everybody else in reducing insecurity by means of taxation, social investment, and transfers.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Lindbeck intervened in Swedish elections, invoked microeconomic theory against social democracy, and warned that high
taxation
and full employment led to disaster.
Local governments control entrepreneurs through licensing, inspections, certifications, and arbitrary
taxation.
Inevitably, government – through its infrastructure, laws and regulations (including taxation), and education system – shapes the economy.
A compromise would allow both parties to declare partial victory, for it would likely entail commitments to cut spending and some steps to make
taxation
more socially just.
Still others look at policies, like trade openness or lightness of
taxation.
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