Economics Volume II: Modern Economic ProblemsFetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert)
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Economics Volume II: Modern Economic Problems
Fetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert)
Economics
This system of impersonal wealth taxation may then be supplemented by
personal taxation, applied through inheritance and income taxes. These
forms of taxation extend over and reach many of the same persons and
incomes as do ultimately the impersonal taxes. But the summation
of personal incomes gives the necessary condition for applying the
principle of progression so far as this is, by public opinion, deemed
desirable either for fiscal or for social reasons.
[Footnote 1: See above, ch.17, sec. 3, note, and sec. 5, on this
distinction. The poll tax also is personal: see ch. 16, sec. 9.]
[Footnote 2: In Utah the tax is 5 per cent on all estates over
$10,000.]
[Footnote 3. Exception, Utah.]
[Footnote 4: Exceptions are Missouri, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Virginia.]
[Footnote 5: It would be more consistent with the purpose of
equalizing fortunes to vary the rate not according to the size of the
legacy but according to the size of the fortune which the legatee has,
or would have, after receiving the legacy.]
[Footnote 6: See Vol. I, p. 26.]
[Footnote 7: In addition, certain items of receipts of companies
or incomes of individuals are arbitrarily defined as property for
purposes of taxation in a few cases in about fifteen other states. See
Wealth, Debt, and Taxation, Report of the Bureau of the Census, 1907,
p. 622.]
[Footnote 8: Article XVI. The Congress shall have power to lay and
collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without
apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any
census enumeration.]
[Footnote 9: It constitutes sec. 2 of the tariff act of 1913 entitled
"An act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the
government and for other purposes."]
[Footnote 10: This may be seen in the following table:
Normal Rate on excess Total
tax on in next class tax on
lower Nor- Addi- upper Total rate
limit mal tional limit per cent
Under $3,000 0 0 0 0 0.00 to 0.00
$3,000-$20,000 0 1 0 170 0.00 to 0.85
$20,000-$50,000 170 1 1 770 0.85 to 1.54
$50,000-$75,000 770 1 2 1,520 1.54 to 2.02
$75,000-$100,000 1,520 1 3 2,520 2.02 to 2.52
$100,000-$250,000 2,520 1 4 10,020 2.52 to 4.00
$250,000-$500,000 10,020 1 5 25,020 4.00 to 5.00
In excess of $500,00 25,020 1 6 upwards 5.00 to 7.00
By legislation in the summer of 1916, after the foregoing was in type,
the "normal" rate was doubled and the additional rates were raised.]
[Footnote 11: The exemption is $3000 for each if they are not living
together. Thus the law offers a reward of $20 to make marriage a
failure.]
[Footnote 12: See above, ch. 17, sec. 5.]
[Footnote 13: See above, ch. 17, secs. 15, 16.]
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