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Title

Frontiers of tax reform / edited with an introduction by Michael J. Boskin.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Boskin, Michael J.
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.

Description

xvii, 202 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Taxation > United States > Congresses
• Value-added tax > United States > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held in Washington, D.C., in May 1995, sponsored by the Hoover Institution.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Michael J. Boskin -- 1. Goals of Fundamental Tax Reform / Bill Archer -- 2. A Framework for the Tax Reform Debate / Michael J. Boskin -- 3. The Flat Tax: A Simple Progressive Consumption Tax / Robert F. Hall and Alvin Rabushka -- 4. The Nunn-Domenici USA Tax: Analysis and Comparisons / Murray Weidenbaum -- 5. A Hybrid Approach to the Direct Taxation of Consumption / Charles E. McLure, Jr. and George R. Zodrow -- 6. The Role of a Value-Added Tax in Fundamental Tax Reform / Gilbert E. Metcalf -- 7. The Economic and Civil Liberties Case for a National Sales Tax / Stephen Moore -- 8. Consumption Taxes: Some Fundamental Transition Issues / David F. Bradford -- 9. Providing Appropriate Information on Tax Reform / Kenneth J. Kies -- 10. Saving and Consumption Taxation: The Federal Retail Sales Tax Example / Laurence J. Kotlikoff -- 11. The Economic Impact of Fundamental Tax Reform / Dale W. Jorgenson.

ISBN

• 0817994319 (alk. paper)
• 0817994327 (pbk.)

LCCN

95048858

OCLC

ocm33666790

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Columbia University Libraries