User:Danculley/Tax distribution

This article is currently a work in progress. When completed, it should describe, in a unified manner, the concepts covered in the articles Progressive tax, Regressive tax, and Proportional tax. The current outline will cover:


 * base concepts for analyzing tax distribution
 * identification of tax base (income, consumption, wealth)
 * identification of time scale (cross-section, lifetime)
 * progressivity, regressivity, and proportionality of different taxes on the same tax base
 * impact of uniform rates versus exemptions
 * comparing progressivity or regressivity across different tax bases
 * examples

Although this page is in my namespace, I intend to post it to Tax distribution once it is finished. In the meantime, I encourage anyone who is interested to post recommendations on the talk page for this subpage.

=Basic Concepts=

Identifying the tax base
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Identifying the time scale
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Progressivity, regressivity, and proportionality
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