Heidelberg Congress on Taxing Consumption Proceedings of the International Congress on Taxing Consumption, Held at Heidelberg, June 28–30, 1989 / edited by Manfred Rose.

A tax reform policy aiming at a growth of prosperity requires basic guidelines. These would have to serve as a standard evaluation model for the precise assessment of the current tax system and the development of tax reform proposals. For market economies the concept of a consumption-based tax syste...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rose, Manfred (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1990.
Edition:1st ed. 1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • One: Opening Lectures
  • The Superiority of a Consumption-Based Tax System
  • On Choosing the “Correct” Tax Base — A Historical Perspective
  • Two: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Taxing Consumption
  • The Short Run and Long Run Welfare Effects of Implementing a Practical System of Consumption Taxation
  • Consumption and Income Taxation: Horizontal Equity and Life Cycle Issues
  • Taxation of Income, Consumption, and Wages in an Open Economy
  • On the Specification of Simulation Models for Evaluating Income and Consumption Taxes
  • Three: Taxing Consumption from a Public Choice and Constitutional Point of View
  • Consumption Taxation and Democratic Process
  • Public Choice and the Consumption Tax
  • Fiscal Principle, Fiscal Politics, and Consumption Taxation
  • Four: Legal Aspects of Taxing Consumption
  • Taxing Consumption from a Legislative Point of View
  • Five: Administrative Aspects of a Consumption-based Tax System
  • Administrative Advantages of the Individual Tax Prepayment Approach to the Direct Taxation of Consumption
  • Alternate Roads to Consumption Taxation — Administration Versus Tax Structure
  • Administration Problems of an Expenditure Tax
  • Six: Taxing Consumption from an International Point of View
  • International Coordination Problems of Substituting Consumption for Income Taxation
  • Problems of International Tax Coordination under Alternative Consumption Tax Regimes
  • Do International Tax Relations Impede a Shift Towards Expenditure Taxation?
  • Participants.