A fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point--in fact, we reach one every thirty-two years. T. R. Reid crisscrosses...
| Main Author: | Reid, T. R. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Every thirty-two years
- Policy laboratories
- "Low effort, low colletion"
- Taxes: what are they good for?
- BBLR
- Scooping water with a sieve
- Flat broke
- The defining problem; the taxing solution
- Convoluted and pernicious strategies
- The single tax, the fat tax, the tiny tax, the carbon tax
- and no tax at all
- The Panama papers: sunny places for shady money
- Simplify, simplify
- The money machine
- Epilogue: The Internal Revenue Code of 2018.