The superiority of an ideal consumption tax over an ideal income tax.

Stanford Law Review;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......choice between an income tax and a consumption tax. The topic has been...choice between an income tax and a consumption tax, focusing on an argument...implications for the income tax versus consumption tax debate. In addition...

Building a better tax system: can a consumption tax deliver the goods?

Brookings Review;  September 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ......replace an income tax with a consumption tax. What's the...What is a Consumption Tax? Proposals...throw out the income tax and start...saving. An income tax taxes saving...interest. A consumption tax taxes saving...

FAIRNESS: Bush launches stealth attack on income tax; Administration's...

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  February 23, 2003 ;     676 words ......wanted to "pull the income tax out by its roots...replace it with a consumption tax or a flat tax...the roots of the income tax so it will collapse...Then we'll have a consumption tax by default. It...but the backdoor consumption tax that would ...

Repeal the income tax: Tax consumption instead

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  May 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ......prevent a consumption tax from begin...our current income tax system is...Thus the income tax creates a...consumption. A consumption tax, on the other...think of a consumption-tax system is simply as an income tax that allows...

A consumption tax is for savings, jobs and shrinking an out of control...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 23, 1998 ;     617 words ......code. Under a consumption tax, every American...losing a cent to income tax withholding. You...Code _ Under a consumption tax, no individual...have to file an income tax return with the...Committee that a consumption tax could increase...under the current ...

Retail conference examines notion of consumption tax. (National Retail...

WWD;  November 23, 1992 ;     392 words ......versions of the consumption tax idea could...to existing income tax forms, said...moving from an income tax to a consumption tax would improve...modifying the income tax. However...impacts of a consumption tax may not become...

The aches and pains of transition to a consumption tax: can we get there...

Virginia Tax Review;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......from the current income tax to a consumption tax. (1) Even if there...agreement that a consumption tax was superior to an income tax, however, there...transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The...

CHAIRMAN ARCHER HERALDS ITC STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF A CONSUMPTION TAX ON...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  July 20, 1998 ;     580 words ......on the Impact of a Consumption Tax on U.S. Trade and...implications of a broad based consumption tax for U.S. trade and...replacing the current income tax with a consumption tax. The Chairman noted...under the existing income tax. Archer, who has ...

NRF board plans to fight consumption tax plan.(National Retail Federation)

Daily News Record;  June 7, 1995 ;     552 words ......key congressional support for a consumption tax, the board of directors of the...has never been supportive of a consumption tax, said John Dill, NRF senior vicepresident...knows that anything involving a consumption tax would cause this industry a great...Tuesday that he favored a ...

Gramm says he'll weigh plan to end income tax

The Boston Globe;  February 8, 1995 ;     700+ words ......might replace the income tax, but he said it would be a consumption tax, which is often...Hampshire has no state income tax. The consumption tax has been embraced...replacing the income tax with a consumption tax would be good...

Remarks on David Bradford.(leading consumption tax advocate)(35th Annual...

National Tax Journal;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......as does an income tax, on whether...worth. While a consumption tax advocate...transition to a consumption tax could result...income to consumption tax transition...wiping out income tax basis. But...moving towards income tax-style ...

The international implications of consumption tax proposals.(Symposium on...

National Tax Journal;  December 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......replace the U.S. income tax system with a consumption tax. This paper...the consumed income tax, or other consumption tax variants, where...eliminating the income tax aside, when...destination-principle consumption tax is imposed...

Henry attacks Orza's stance on income tax plan

The Journal Record;  September 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ......eliminate the income tax and replace...said of the consumption-tax plan. "It's...switch to a consumption tax, a move that...eliminate the income tax," Henry said...progressive income tax for a regressive consumption tax. "The first...changing ...

Greenspan Supports Consumption Tax Idea

AP Online;  March 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ......form of a consumption tax _ such as...Switching from an income tax to a consumption tax would generate...combination of an income tax and a consumption tax. "I would...abandon the consumption tax idea," he...comprehensive income ...

CONSUMPTION TAX CAN'T WORK ALONE

Dayton Daily News;  February 15, 2003 ;     448 words ......plan to do away with the income tax and replace it with some kind of "consumption" tax, which is like a sales...way through a morass of income tax laws. And it would, allegedly...great problem. If the consumption tax is really the miracle-work...