As he notes, "The Bush tax cuts of the early 2000s reduced the progressivity of federal taxes, but not that much." I would have guessed that the effect on progressivity was larger than this. The ...

Tax progressivity exists in every high income democracy because it’s a natural outgrowth of combining political democracy with economic arrangements that cause most to earn well below the ...

Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures." Quarterly Journal of Economics 89, no. 1 (February 1975): 138–144 ...

But with the top individual tax rate now 39.6 percent, some Republicans aren’t nearly as concerned about progressivity as they look to lower tax rates and eliminate tax preferences.

This paper investigates and clarifies the relation between global tax progressivity as measured by Musgrave and Thin's `effective progression' and pointwise (local) progression as measured by the ...

This paper revisits the Great Gatsby curve that connects inequality to mobility, using panel data spanning several countries and time periods. Existing literature observes that the intergenerational ...

Will the long-term burden of Australia's economic recovery fall disproportionately on younger and poorer households, or will a fairer, more progressive approach prevail, asks Gareth Hutchens.

However, we should still have an element of progressivity, that the burden should fall lightest upon those who have the least. Most recent flat tax plans have some sort of basic deductible, a ...

Summary:Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who ...