The Tax DecadeDescription of the tax developments of the 1980s by one of the best informed economic analysts of the American system. |
Contents
Postwar Changes in the Overall Tax System | 13 |
The Early Reagan Era | 39 |
198284 | 57 |
A New Era of Decision Making | 71 |
Consensus and Diversity | 85 |
What Was Achieved in Tax Reform? | 121 |
Failures of the 1986 Tax Reform Effort | 143 |
Investment by Broad Asset Type at Different | 151 |
The Aftermath to Tax Reform 19871989 | 163 |
The Budget Compromise of 1990 | 173 |
Implications for the Future | 185 |
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accelerated additional administration alternative minimum tax assets base broadening benefits bill billion budget capital gains capital income Congress congressional corporate cost deductions deficit reduction depreciation allowances dividends earnings economic effective tax rates eliminated enacted equity estimates excise tax expenditure programs expenses federal financing fiscal flat tax GNP Amount GNP growth incentives income tax income tax rate indexing individual income tax inflation interest rate itemized deductions legislation levels low-income major marginal rates marginal tax rates median income Medicare minimum tax nontaxable offset payments percent of GNP percentage personal exemption political premiums President proposals rate reduction RATES Tax Reagan revenues Social Security Social Security tax sources standard deduction Steuerle Table tax arbitrage tax base tax burden tax changes tax code tax credit tax cuts tax decade tax expenditures tax increases tax policy tax reduction Tax Reform Act tax shelters tax system tax-writing committees taxation taxpayers trust fund