从法理上对税收负担最小化手段的再界定——税收筹划概念的内涵和外延

目前关于税收负担最小化手段的理解多种多样 ,对税收筹划及相关概念的使用很不规范 ,容易误导纳税人的行为和国家的税收征管。本文从法理上将税收负担最小化手段划分为偷逃骗税和税收筹划 ,又将税收筹划划分为避税、节税和税负转嫁     

社会战乱对汉唐间农业税制嬗变影响的分析

汉唐间农业税制在中国农业税制史上的地位是非常显著的,不仅因其具有较长时段之实行,而且在于对同时期的日本农业税制及此后的中国农业税制产生了重大影响,但其嬗变却是社会战乱作用和推动的结果。在籍人口大量减耗迫使政府把课税方式人丁化,田地大规模荒芜促使其建立均田制,谷帛极其短缺致使其征收实物。     

论社会保障对现代社会风险的规避

讨论了现代社会中的风险以及社会保障对风险的规避作用。社会保障由于其内在的社会性、互济性、调节性,构成了现代社会的稳定机制。它对风险进行再分配,对社会成员提供安全保障,重建信任,增强了人们对风险的抵抗能力。     

我国个人所得税的设置、建立和完善

本文回顾了新中国成立至今我国个人所得税的发展 ,分析了目前个人所得税制中现存的诸如扣除额之类的一些问题 ,指出了一系列用以完善个人所得税制的具有建设性的意见和建议。     

反避税工作现状和措施浅析

通过对反避税工作的现状、避税的主要手段的分析，提出在加强反国际避税的同时，应加强对国内避税工作的研究，在理念上、立法上、管理上加以不断更新与完善，为公平纳税环境，确保国家财政收入提供有力保障．     

Indexing the Federal Tax System: A Cost-of-Living Approach

In this article, we analyze the indexation of federal taxes, using an approach based on cost-of-living measurement. We use our Tax and Price Index methodology and data base to study an indexed system historically, comparing indexation with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to actual tax policy, a tax system with constant parameters, and an “exact” indexing scheme. We reach three main conclusions: (a) The sequence of tax reductions implemented between 1967 and 1985 have fallen short of mimicking indexation, (b) wealthier households would have benefited relatively more than lower-income households from indexation, and (c) CPI indexation would not have completely eliminated bracket creep.     

On Using Linear Regressions in Welfare Economics

This article consists of two parts. The first part shows that the ordinary least squares regression coefficient is a weighted average of slopes between adjacent sample points. When applied to a linear regression, with income as the independent variable, the regression coefficient depends heavily on the slopes of high-income groups. The weight of the highest income decile may well exceed that of the other nine deciles. This may be undesirable, especially if the regression is used for welfare analysis, because the marginal propensities to consume attributed to the commodities are determined by the high-income groups. The second part of the article proposes alternative estimators, the extended Gini estimators, that enable investigators to control the weighting scheme and to incorporate their social views into the weighting scheme of the estimators     

Tax collection efficiency in OECD countries improves via decentralization,simplification, digitalization and education

This paper offers an assessment of tax administration performance and provides evidence of the relationship between fiscal decentralization (and tax structure) and the technical efficiency of tax collection. The initial stage of the investigation consists of a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to obtain technical efficiency estimates for a sample of 28 OECD countries over the period 2004–2017. In a second stage, we explore how technical efficiency is affected by fiscal decentralization and tax structure variables. The results show how the degree of fiscal decentralization has a positive and significant impact on the technical efficiency of tax collection. They also reveal a relevant role of tax structure choices and the ratio of indirect to direct taxes, which can significantly affect tax collection efficiency. Finally, we extract some policy implications.