Effective Taxes: Criteria, Principles, Types, and Incidence
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Ch. 14 • Know the criteria for effective taxes • Know the principles of taxation • Understand and identify different types of taxes
Criteria for Effective Taxes • Equity- Make as fair as possible • Simplicity- Everyone can understand • Efficiency- Easy to administer and generates revenue
Principles of Taxation • Benefit principle of taxation- those who benefit more from spending of tax dollars should pay more for the taxes
Ability to Pay • Those that can best afford to pay taxes pay more taxes
Progressive Taxes • Tax that takes a larger percentage of higher incomes and smaller percentage of lower incomes • EX: Federal Income Tax
Regressive Taxes • Tax that takes a larger percentage of lower incomes and smaller percentage of higher incomes • EX: Sales Tax
Proportional Taxes • Tax that takes the same percentage of income from all taxpayers • Ex: Income Tax Percentage if set at 20%.
Tax Incidence • Group on whom the tax burden actually falls
Direct Taxes • Tax levied and paid by an individual taxpayer • EX: Personal income tax
Indirect Taxes • Tax that can be shifted from one person to another • EX: Property tax for landlords, businesses • Ease of shifting tax depends on how bad consumers want product (Inelastic Demand)
DO YOU KNOW? • 3 Criteria for effective taxes? • 2 principles of taxation? • Difference between progressive, regressive and proportional (flat) • Difference between direct and indirect taxes?