Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
Alan Viard’s chapter, “Fundamental Tax Reform: A Comparison of Three Options” is a thoughtful, even-handed, and most worthwhile contribution to the analysis of major reforms that, if adopted, would move the tax system strongly in the direction of taxing consumption. The chapter nicely illustrates the complexity of the tax reform problem by exposing a range of available reform options, with an accompanying range of welfare implications. Even among tax reforms with common objectives, there can be strongly differing economic and distributional consequences. Furthermore, otherwise-similar reforms can and do appeal to very different political constituencies....
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Hines, James R., Jr. "Comment on 'Fundamental Tax Reform: A Comparison of Three Options'." In The Economics of Tax Policy, edited by Alan J. Auerbach and Kent Smetters, 369-374. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Comments
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.