Taxes in America
What Everyone Needs to Know®
(Sprache: Englisch)
Taxes in America offers a clear, concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved, in an accessible and occasionally humorous manner. The book explores what makes a tax system fair, simple,...
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Taxes in America offers a clear, concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved, in an accessible and occasionally humorous manner. The book explores what makes a tax system fair, simple, and efficient, why our system falls short, and whether the new tax law promises much, if any, improvement.
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Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America. But while understanding of our tax system is of vital importance, the complexity can create confusion. Two of America's leading authorities on taxes, Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, bring clarity in this concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved. The book explores what makes a tax system fair, simple, and efficient, why our system falls short, and whether the new tax law promises much, if any, improvement. Accessibly written and organized in a clear, question-and-answer format, the book describes the intricacies of the modern tax system in an easy-to-grasp manner. It has been revised and updated to both explain the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017, the most comprehensive reform of its income tax system since 1986, and to examine its likely effects on individuals, businesses, and society.Among the questions discussed are: How much more tax could the IRS collect with better enforcement? How do tax burdens vary around the world? Why do corporations pay so little tax, even though they earn trillions of dollars every year? What kind of tax system is most conducive to economic growth? And, can taxes be fair?
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- PREFACE
- Who are we?
- Why did we team up to write this book?
- What's the book about?
- Why did we write a second edition?
- Who provided invaluable assistance on this project?
- PART I HOW ARE WE TAXED?
- 1 The View from 30,000 Feet
- a. Why is everyone always so worked up about taxation?
- b. Why was everyone especially worked up in 2018? (Hint: a lot has changed)
- c. What is a tax?
- d. What are the major kinds of taxes?
- e. How are taxes like ducks?
- f. Are there "hidden" taxes?
- g. Are there ways to raise revenue other than taxes?
- h. Why not just borrow the money instead of raising taxes?
- i. How can taxes be like regulations?
- j. How can regulations and spending programs be like taxes?
- k. How have taxes changed over time?
- l. How do state and local taxes vary?
- m. How does the composition of tax vary across federal, state, and local governments?
- n. Is the United States really the highest taxed country in the world?
- o. Federal taxes in the United States have been at about 18 percent of GDP for 50 years. Does that mean that this is the natural rate of taxation?
- p. Why is the long-term fiscal outlook so dire?
- 2 Personal Income Taxes
- a. What's the difference between personal taxes and business taxes?
- b. Who really bears the burden of tax?
- c. Are there cases in practice where it does matter who writes the check?
- d. Can taxes affect asset prices?
- e. What is the personal income tax?
- f. Isn't the income tax a fraud?
- g. What are exclusions, deductions, exemptions, and credits?
- h. What is the standard deduction?
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i. Why are there itemized deductions? Isn't it unfair that most people don't benefit from them?
j. Who benefits from the itemized deduction for state and local taxes (SALT)?
k. Why could raising the standard deduction and limiting the SALT deduction depress home prices and charitable giving?
l. At what income level do people start owing income tax?
m. Is it true that half of households owe no income taxes?
n. Is this bad for democracy?
o. Do we tax capital income the same as labor income?
p. What is economic income?
q. Why do economists think my home earns me rent?
r. Why don't we tax economic income?
s. How do we tax capital gains and dividends?
t. What are the arguments for and against lower capital gains tax rates?
u. What is the "Angel of Death" loophole?
v. What is carried interest?
w. If we want to favor capital gains and dividends, does it make sense to do it via lower rates?
x. What
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Autoren-Porträt von Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod
Leonard E. Burman is Paul Volcker Professor of Behavioral Economics at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute.Joel Slemrod is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, at the University of Michigan.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Leonard E. Burman , Joel Slemrod
- 2020, Second Edition, 368 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190920858
- ISBN-13: 9780190920852
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A valuable new primer on the nation's wild and crazy revenue system. Taxes in America is a clear, concise, and easy-to-read tour of the U.S. revenue system. It is written in a simple question-and-answer format, and does a nice job of breaking down complex tax theory into bite-sized understandable chunks. If you find yourself baffled by the politicians' arguments over tax rates and "loopholes" or about the various forms of tax reforms that are floating around, Taxes in America will help you understand what it is that lawmakers are about to do to you. Forbes
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