Observations from the U.S. Federal Income Tax to Distinguish Between Measures of Progressivity and Redistributive Capacity

This study provides insights on the attributes of a tax that are measured by two different classes of progressivity indices – those defined by Kakwani (1977), Suits (1977), Stroup (2005), and Mathews (2016) and those defined by Musgrave & Thin (1948) and Reynolds & Smolensky (1977). Index v...

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Main Author: Timoty Mathews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2016-03-01
Series:Central European Public Administration Review
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20444
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