Reforming the Individual Income Tax
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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 reexamination, and both the Revenue Resources and Economic Study Commission and the Virginia Department of Taxation were performing similar analysis. Today, many of Virginia's fiscal issues need a fresh review, but the commission no longer exists and the Department of Taxation does not publish an analysis series. This paper marks the resumption of the Virginia Issues series.
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