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They must also reform Social Security taxation and benefits through less generous indexing, increased means testing, and a higher income cap on Social Security taxation.
Other decisions have dealt with taxation, social legislation, or electoral laws.
The entire French political class has long delighted in taxing labor to finance the country’s generous welfare provisions, thus avoiding excessively high taxation of individuals’ income and consumption – though that is about to come to an end as Hollande intends to slap a 75% tax on incomes above €1 million.
He exempted voluntary overtime pay from employment tax and shifted some of the burden of labor taxation onto consumption (via a hike in VAT).
We feel that there is something wrong with taxing our superrich until the pips squeak so much that further taxation reduces the number of pips.
But that should be the clear aim, with IMF assistance along the way to provide interim funding where necessary and political cover for governments obliged to take tough decisions on public spending and taxation.
A shift to a territorial system of taxation would remove the disadvantages faced by American multinational corporations and encourage them to reinvest their overseas profits at home, increasing US employment and profits.
It also structures the debate on domestic issues such as income distribution and the role of the state, as well as on some of tomorrow’s major challenges, such as global taxation or the future of work.
But this limits its ability to use taxation as a mechanism for redistribution.
But as it looks for ways to improve its tax regime, it must not allow certain sectors – not least those with heavily digitalized business models – to evade taxation entirely.
But there is always the risk that the IMF’s recommendations calling for more taxation – an increase in value-added tax and higher energy tariffs – together with Hezbollah’s recurring demands, might create a political earthquake.
They need the political buy-in that redistributive taxation, safety nets, and social insurance help generate.
Though I strongly believe that the US needs more progressive taxation, particularly of the top 0.1%, I don’t understand why he assumes that an 80% rate would not cause significant distortions, especially as this assumption contradicts a large body of work by the Nobel laureates Thomas Sargent and Edward Prescott.
Defenders of low rates for capital owners argue that it minimizes “double” taxation of corporate income – first of the corporation and then of its shareholders.
Such a change would reduce corporations’ incentives to move investments abroad or shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions, while increasing the progressivity of tax outcomes by shifting more of the burden of corporate taxation from labor to capital owners.
The lure of borrowing becomes irresistible if it can be assumed that the burden might be shifted to population groups other than those benefiting today from low taxation or higher public spending.
Apple eventually created 6,000 jobs in the country, in exchange for a sweetheart tax deal allowing it to shield its European revenues from taxation by recording them there.
Some propose abandoning the current system of patented drugs altogether and funding pharmaceutical R&D through taxation or prize-based systems.
President Bush's view on taxation is strikingly different from his predecessor's.
The fifth area that Democrats must address is taxation.
Yet goodwill can dissipate quickly, which is why Macron must move to capitalize on his early mandate by implementing reforms of fiscal policy, taxation, the labor market, and education, to name but a few areas where change is long overdue.
To achieve both goals, Russia's elite will need to share some of its new wealth, and not only with people hurt by reforms, but with the state, through enacting taxation schemes that allow, say, for energy taxes to begin to cover some of the costs of pensions.
At a minimum, currency unions require a confederation with far more centralized power over taxation and other policies than European leaders envision for the eurozone.
Consider the main economic argument offered by federalists: the eurozone needs a common fiscal policy to harmonize policy decisions, such as taxation.
The aftermath of the crisis is thus likely to include not only enhanced bank regulation and heavier taxation of many banking activities, but also institutional devices to apply pressure on banks to lend more.
The implication is that it would entail a much larger EU budget, presumably financed by some kind of EU-wide taxation, as well as eurozone-backed unemployment insurance and a debt-mutualization mechanism like Eurobonds.
Another area of controversy is how to reform the taxation of American multinationals' foreign earnings.
The US public is rabidly opposed to paying higher taxes, yet the trend level of taxation (at around 18% of national income) is not sufficient to pay for the core functions of government.
This stance assumes that lower tax rates raise the tax/GDP ratio by ensuring better compliance with tax laws, and favors indirect taxation (such as value-added taxes) in order to broaden the tax base to include those with modest incomes.
Meanwhile, direct taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline – despite the moot claim that lower direct taxation ensures investment and growth.
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