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Foreword -- Introduction -- Distribution of Tax Burdens -- The Rich, the Poor, and the Taxes they Pay* -- Who Paid the Taxes, 1966-85?* -- Individual Income Taxation -- The Personal Income Tax* -- Comprehensive Income Tax Reform* -- Erosion of the Individual Income Tax* -- The Comprehensive Income Tax Concept* -- Tax Issues -- The Family* -- Capital Gains and Losses* -- Adjusting for Inflation* -- Consumption Expenditure Tax* -- Value-Added Tax* -- Estate Taxes* -- Implementing Tax-Based Incomes Policies* -- Financing a Federal System -- Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations* -- State-Local Finance Beyond Revenue Sharing* -- Income Maintenance -- Is a Negative Income Tax Practical?* -- The New Jersey Negative Income Tax Experiment* -- Social Security -- The Objectives of Social Security* -- Evaluation of the US Social Security System* -- Foreign Tax Systems -- Taxation in Japan* -- Taxation in Great Britain* -- Implications of International Tax Trends*

This book presents a selection of essays on public finance, which is concerned with taxation, income maintenance, and social security, with emphasis on the analysis of policy alternatives to improve tax and transfer systems. It is useful for those who are interested in learning tax policy issues.

One of the major architects of comprehensive tax reform has revised his widely acclaimed book on tax policy to reflect the changes brought about by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all other major changes in tax laws since 1983. Joseph A. Pechman's Federal Tax Policy is a nontechnical book for general readers and students interested in taxation as an instrument of public policy. It emphasizes such current issues as a comprehensive income taxation, inflation adjustments in income taxation, graduated income taxes versus expenditure taxes, the effects of taxation on economic incentives, and fiscal relations between the federal and state and local governments. Pechman presents and evaluates contrasting views on most forms of taxation--personal and corporate income, general and selective consumption, payroll, estate and gift, property, and state and local--and offers a perceptive analysis of the process of tax legislation and the role of taxation in the fiscal policy. He also provides a valuable series of statistical table on tax developments and an extensive bibliography on tax theory and practice.