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Interest rates vs consumption tax brackets
There are several problems with your proposal, and there are several claims that you make that are actually not correct.
First, consumption taxes do not directly combat inflation they actually ...
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Does reinvestment of earnings decrease a corporation's tax
All else constant, a higher level of investments results in higher depreciation and re-valuations or "write-downs", and these higher charges to revenue result in lower taxable profits and ...
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Book reference for graphs explaining ad valorem and specific taxes
When a specific tax is imposed on a monopolist, the supply curve doesn't apply since a monopolist does not have a supply curve in the traditional sense. Instead, the monopolist sets the price and ...
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"Wealth tax" on illiquid assets, how would people pay
This is a problem often asked in the context of a land value tax where 100% of the rental value of land is taxed. If the value of the land rises substantially, and the person on the land isn't making ...
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What are the evasion/avoidance rates for transaction taxes that have been implemented elsewhere & how does this compare with more traditional taxes?
I would say this is very unlikely to be a good idea. Not only is this basically a sales tax (which is widely known to be one of the most regressive taxes), but given that you can't track cash ...
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Could a carbon tax be a substitute for VAT?
In the US, about \$650 billion of sales tax is collected nation wide. At a price of \$50 per metric ton of carbon, only about $75 billion could be collected at that rate. So it seems unlikely that it ...
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