1st Edition

The Incidence of Income Taxes

By Duncan Black Copyright 2019
    338 Pages
    by Routledge

    338 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this book, first published in 1939, an analysis is given of the incidence both of partial income taxes, that is of income taxes which are levied on the incomes arising from particular lines of industry, and of a general income tax.

    Part 1. The Older Theory of the Incidence of a General Income Tax  1. Introduction  2. The Three Arguments of the Older Theory  3. Mr. Coates’s Theory and Statistical Investigation  4. Two Main Sources of an Improved Doctrine: The Colwyn Report and De Viti De Marco’s First Principles  Part 2. The Incidence of Partial Income Taxes  5. A Tax on the Income of a Monopolist  6. The Incidence of a Proportional Income Tax on the Diamond Monopoly in South Africa  7. The Incidence of a Partial Income Tax  8. The Incidence of a Proportional Income Tax and of the Present Income Tax on South African Gold Mining  Part 3. The Incidence of a General Income Tax  9. The Conditions Assumed and the Method to be Followed  10. On the Disregard of the Expenditure of the Tax Proceeds in the Theory of Incidence  11. The Effect of the Income Tax in Direct Alteration of Demand Schedules  12. The Effect of the Income Tax on the Supply of Labour Per Individual  13. The Effect of the Income Tax in Changing the Size of Population in Short Periods and in the Long Period  14. The Effect of the Income Tax on the Quantity of Capital in the Short and in the Long Period  15. Conclusions. The Incidence of a General Income Tax in a Stationary Community  16. Conclusions cont. The Incidence of a General Income Tax in a Progressive Community  17. The Effect of the Income Tax on Uncertainty-Bearing  18. The British Income Tax: How Should We Alter It?

    Biography

    Duncan Black was Assistant Lector Economics, University Dundee, Scotland, 1932-34. Assistant Lector, Lector, Professor of Economics, University College N. Wales. Emeritus Professor of Economics, University College N. Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom, since 1968