Progressivity

The typical objection to a sales or value added tax is that it is regressive but I think you could maintain progressivity through tax credits for lower incomes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, if progressivity is a requirement in the real world, the tax could be coupled with a standard per capita rebate that would, in effect, become a negative tax at lower income levels/consumption levels, and as you go up the income/consumption scale, the tax bite progressively gets to be greater. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As an aside, how much of the decrease in progressivity comes from greater breadth of stock ownership -- if more people own stock, then more people are imputed to be be paying corporate income taxes -- not that such imputations have anything to do with actual tax incidence? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That is called progressivity and, of course, it is one of the most contentious aspects of any tax system. ❋ Marcelo Giugale (2011)

Flatness itself has just about nothing to do with simplicity; the only complexity added by progressivity is looking up a number in a chart at the end. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He seems to suggest that some progressivity is good in the tax code, but that progressivity should be minimized (or at least not increased) during difficult economic times. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or maybe progressivity is one of the aspects of SS that you want to eliminate???? ❋ Unknown (2006)

"I think it's very important for us to maintain what's called progressivity in the tax code," the president said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The more interesting aspect would be to look at the "progressivity" of taxes minus government monetary transfers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The governor's bill, House Bill 110, would reduce the tax rate paid by oil producers in a couple of ways, first by lowering the base rate from 25 percent to 15 percent on some fields and also by reconfiguring the controversial "progressivity" provisions that kick in as the price of oil rises. ❋ AlaskaDispatch.com (2011)

Therefore it should not be subjected to any sort of "progressivity" analysis of federal taxes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In this context he says that the conception of an infinite "progressivity" is included in the conception of "history," but adds that the perfectibility of the race cannot be directly inferred. ❋ Unknown (1894)

"Competitiveness Index" based on 15 policy variables in each state such as income and corporate taxes, tax "progressivity," and right-to-work protections. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But it also doubled the increase Palin wanted in the "progressivity" surcharge that the state collects when oil prices are high. ❋ Unknown (2010)