Publication Year
2017
Keywords
accounting, tax, taxation, tax system, income tax, U.S. tax system
Disciplines
Accounting | Taxation
Abstract
"The current U.S. tax system does not allow for proportional distribution of tax burdens among different levels of income. While there are some parts of the system that reduce the progressivity of the tax burden distribution, the wealthiest taxpayers are, on average, disproportionately burdened by taxes in proportion to the income they earn." The research in this paper defends the thesis statement by demonstrating how high-income households are taxed at greater effective tax rates than low-income households.
Department 1 Awarding Honors Status
Accounting
Recommended Citation
Leighty, M. (2017). The U.S. Tax System: Too Taxing on the Wealthy? (Undergraduate honors thesis, University of Redlands). Retrieved from https://inspire.redlands.edu/cas_honors/149
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