Lays the groundwork for the principles of the market economy. This book established the guiding ideas behind the economic concepts of diminishing returns and economic rent.
How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Sta
Written for small businesses, self-employed individuals, employers, professionals, independent contractors, home businesses, and Internet businesses, Small Time Operator is the most popular business start-up guide ever. This book will provide on-demand workers with everything they need to know to not only survive, but truly thrive in the modern ..
The unsustainable, and still rapidly growing, U.S. federal government debt is a classic case of ''in denial." Despite numerous congressional committees, bipartisan commissions, and votes, we are no closer to a solution to the debt crisis than we were more than a decade ago. In fact, in 2018, a congressional committee was appointed to recommend ......
Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit
This book informs a renewed movement for fair lending and fair housing. Leading advocates and specialists examine strategic initiatives to realize objectives of the federal Fair Housing Act as well as state and local laws Well-known fair housing and fair lending activists and organizers examine the implications of the new wave of fair housing ......
Draws on the author's practical experience and her research to provide a broad perspective on the challenge of state and local pensions. Alicia H. Munnell shows that the story is big and complicated and cannot be viewed through a narrow prism such as accounting methods or the role of unions.
Although estate and gift taxes raise a small fraction of federal revenues, they have become sources of increasing political controversy. This book is designed to inform the current policy debate and build a conceptual basis for future scholarship.
An analysis of capital gains tax. It examines the rules governing the taxation of capital gains and the assets that produce them. It reviews the effects of capital gains taxation on saving and investment and considers the arguments for and against indexing capital gains taxes for inflation.
the Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend it
This book explores one of the most dynamic and exciting aspects of globalization international tax competition. With rising mobility and soaring capital flows, individuals and businesses are gaining freedom to work and invest in nations with lower tax rates. That freedom is pressuring governments to cut taxes on income, investment, and wealth. In ......
People pay taxes for two reasons. On the positive side, most people recognize, even if grudgingly, that payment of tax is a duty of citizenship. On the negative side, they know that the law requires payment, that evasion is a crime, and that willful failure to pay taxes is punishable by fines or imprisonment.
