Talk:Progressive tax

History

Copied from WP:RDH#History of progressive income tax EllenCT (talk) 01:40, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Recently Progressive tax was edited in a way that I find difficult to integrate because I lack access to dusty historical stuff that if someone has summarized online already, I apparently lack the time to find. Can anyone verify, "The first peace time graduated income tax was actually in Prussia in 1891."? EllenCT (talk) 16:22, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

According to this source, on page 108, Prussia introduced its first graduated income tax in 1851, not 1891. Marco polo (talk) 17:57, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

I have found online an article titled The Prussian Income Tax from an 1892 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Economics. I am no expert on the history of taxation so there is a lot there that goes over my head. However, it does seem to provide a detailed examination of the evolution of income tax in Prussia to the 1891 tax - see page 223. This states that the 1851 income tax was not progressive, an 1873 reform brought in something "practically" (but not exactly) a progressive income tax, and finally in 1891 a progressive income tax. Whether it was the first ever, anywhere, may be harder to prove. But the reference should at least be helpful in updating the article to include Prussia. - Eron^Talk 18:34, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

"A Big Safety Net and Strong Job Market Can Coexist"

"Some of the highest employment rates in the advanced world are in places with the highest taxes and most generous welfare systems, namely Scandinavian countries. The United States and many other nations with relatively low taxes and a smaller social safety net actually have substantially lower rates of employment."

-- Irwin, Neil (December 17, 2014). "A Big Safety Net and Strong Job Market Can Coexist. Just Ask Scandinavia". New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2014.

Please see the correlograms in that article, showing employment rate against effective tax rate and child care subsidies. While it doesn't discuss progressivity directly, it does focus on Scandinavia, which has the most progressive taxes in the world, and discusses transfer payments to the poor, which, depending on their magnitude, are mathematically equivalent to progressive tax under nominally regressive taxes. EllenCT (talk) 23:41, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Bottom US tax bracket

@Lawrencekhoo: regarding [1], would it be more accurate for an international encyclopedia to characterize the personal exemption as the bottom bracket? Would something like "seven brackets above an untaxed level formed by personal and usually additional exemptions" work better? EllenCT (talk) 21:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Your suggestion sounds fine to me. Morphh ^(talk) 15:07, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Done, with a little more detail. EllenCT (talk) 02:10, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Progressive tax dispute

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics states that there is some dispute concerning whether more progressive tax require less total tax, all else being equal.

I'd like to solve that dispute, but the wording of such dispute is confusing. Can someone explain what the dispute is about?

Dryfee (talk) 16:23, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to create new sections as I don't really edit wikipedia much, but i want to point out that the graph of german tax vs average tax is wrong. the german tax should be a step type graph without any diagonal lines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.117.48.251 (talk) 00:06, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Total taxation revenue to be repayment in full plus inflation

I would like to see the total tax revenue during one year to be the full repayment to governments of what was actually paid by the governments during the previous year, plus an amount to cover the estimated inflation during the current year. How that total taxation, plus any borrowing, is to be collected should be entirely a political matter. 70.27.152.243 (talk) 17:48, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

(tax paid ÷ personal income)

I removed this from the lead as it as I thought it unnecessary and inaccurate as part of the base definition. I'd be ok restoring it if it included "e.g." to indicate it as an example, but a more accurate formula would be (tax paid ÷ tax base), but that's already somewhat clear from the definition. So it's all sort of redundant. Morphh ^(talk) 21:43, 5 November 2019 (UTC)