Personal Income Tax Policy in China and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. S75-S81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Xu ◽  
Huiyu Cui
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Tax Policy ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Income Tax Policy

scholarly journals Flat-Rate versus Progressive Taxation? An Impact Evaluation Study for the Case of Romania

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6405
Author(s):  
Madalina Ecaterina Popescu ◽  
Eva Militaru ◽  
Larisa Stanila ◽  
Maria Denisa Vasilescu ◽  
Amalia Cristescu
Keyword(s):  
Tax Policy ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Progressive Taxation ◽  
Flat Rate ◽  
Income Inequalities ◽  
Income Tax Policy ◽  
The Impact

Taking into consideration the recent debates on adopting a progressive tax system over the flat-rate taxation, our paper aims to investigate the impact of a change in the current Romanian personal income tax policy system from the 10% flat-rate tax system to some alternative progressive taxation scenarios. The methodological approach consisted in using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database to micro-simulate the impact upon poverty and income inequality. Through our ex-ante tax policy analysis we bring empirical evidence of a modest, but positive effect upon poverty rate and income inequalities in favor of a progressive taxation system. However, when looking at the government financial implications through the personal income tax budget revenues, we discuss upon the possible trade-off between the benefits on poverty and income inequalities and the possible budgetary drawbacks. Despite the data limitations, this study has the benefit of being among the first attempts to evaluate the impact of a personal income tax policy reform for the case of Romania.

Evidence on Income Inequality in the United States, 1866–1965

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee C. Soltow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Income Groups

It is commonly thought that income distribution among people became more concentrated after the Civil War and that this direction continued until the turn of the century. We can look methodically at the income tax distributions from the Civil War period and compare them directly with the distributions arising from the income tax after 1912. We also have some data from the abortive income tax of 1894. After examining the various blocks of evidence, the conclusion will be made that inequality among upper-income groups did not increase during this period. It is necessary to emphasize that the present investigation is one of income and not of wealth. It might have been possible for the nonhuman wealth distribution among people to remain constant or to increase in inequality while the personal income distribution was decreasing in inequality.

scholarly journals Development of Taxation of Income of Individuals in the Russian Federation Based on Foreign Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-421
Author(s):  
Alexandra O. Ryndina ◽  
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Maria S. Zhverantseva ◽  
Tatiana E. Totikova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Income Taxation ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Common

Introduction. The issue of reforming the taxation of personal income has not left the agenda in recent decades. The importance of solving this issue is determined by the high economic and social significance of personal income tax and its impact on the labor market and consumption. Theoretical analysis. The article analyzes the statistics of the Federal Tax Service on income tax on physical incomes in the budget system of the country, identifies and substantiates the problems of income taxation in the Russian Federation. Discussion of results. A study of the characteristics of income taxation in the United States, Norway and Sweden revealed the common features and differences in the principles of constructing a system of income taxation in the studied countries and the Russian Federation. The analysis made it possible to substantiate measures to improve the system of income taxation of the Russian Federation based on foreign experience and evaluate the expected effect of some measures.

scholarly journals System and tax policy and population policy

Stanovnistvo ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Bozidar Raicevic ◽  
Brankica Gagic ◽  
Danijel Pantic
Keyword(s):  
Tax Policy ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
The Other ◽  
Corporate Income Tax ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Systems ◽  
Economic Capacity

System and tax policy may be used for numerous purposes. That is, especially, the case with contemporary tax systems which are, among other features, based at the synthetic (global) taxation of the economic capacity of the natural persons. Besides the basic, fiscal, many other goals, may be reached through the taxation, including those which fall in the scope of the population policy. In this paper, modern tendencies have been analysed in achieving the goals of the population policy, which provide solutions in respect of the following tax instruments: personal income tax, corporate income tax, property tax and turnover tax. It has been emphasized that relatively numerous and differentiated possibilities exist in respect of the annual personal income tax and far less, with the other forms of taxation.

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