Individual income tax: New opportunities for management

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...

Effective Tax Functions for the US Individual Income Tax : 1966

Income Tax Buyouts and Income Tax Evasion

A tax buyout is a contract between tax authorities and a tax payer which reduces the marginal income tax rate in exchange for a lump-sum payment. While previous contributions have focussed on labour supply, we consider the interaction with tax evasion and show that a buyout can increase expected tax revenues. This will be the case if (1) the audit probability is constant and the penalty for eva...

Information Content of Income, Tax Avoidance and Taxable Income Management

Managers’ prediction of users’ decisions is economically valuable. Managers do manage income either to distort information or to defer and report the information related to future incomes. This investigation aims at examining the effects of taxable income management on future tax avoidance consequences as well as the information content of firms. Panel data models, multivariate regression model...

Distributive Justice and the Reform of China's Individual Income Tax

Both the ratios of the labor remuneration and the residents’ income are too low in Chinese national income distribution. In order to resolve this prominent problem, the Chinese authority should attach great importance to the tax adjustment for realizing the positive effect of the distributive justice. Therefore, the objective of the Individual Income Tax reform is to strengthen its function on ...