Challenges and Uncertainties in Forecasting Federal Individual Income Tax Receipts

Effective Federal Individual Income Tax Functions: an Exploratory Empirical Analysis

We define and statistically estimate a nonlinear relationship between individual effective income tax rates and economic income for United States tax return data for tax years 1979-89. The relationship, which we call the effective tax function, has three parameters and was theoretically derived from the theory of equal sacrifice by Young (1988, 1990) and more generally by Berliant and Gouveia (...

Reforming the Individual Income Tax

Starting in the late 1970s the Tayloe Murphy Institute, which was one of two institutions that combined to form the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in 1987, published a series of monographs on fiscal issues in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Six papers were eventually published. In the mid-1980s the series was discontinued. Many topics had been covered and did not require immediate reexam...

Contractual Compliance and the Federal Income Tax System

Effective Tax Functions for the US Individual Income Tax : 1966

Alternative State Business Tax Systems: A Comparison of State Income and Gross Receipts Taxes