Taxation In The United States And Europe

Download or read book Taxation in the United States and Europe written by Anthonie Knoester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on taxation and economic policy making. It contains a variety of contributions devoted to important theoretical and empirical topics of taxation. Among the issues discussed are tax reforms, the poverty trap and the Laffer curve, taxation and the inverted Haavelmo effect, the excess burden of taxation in the United States, corporation tax harmonisation and taxation policy and economic integration. In addition, it contains a survey of the tax policies actually pursued by Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s and the 1990s thus providing an unique documentation for an international comparison. The book will be of interest for anyone who is professionally involved with the theory and practise of taxation.