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Public Revenue without Taxation (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Public Revenue without Taxation (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Loot Price R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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Gordon Brown was a past-master at sneaking in new taxes by stealth,
but his efforts as Chancellor and then Prime Minister were merely
the latest in a long line of party leaders desperate to extract
more money from reluctant taxpayers. This book challenges the need
for government to resort to such underhand practices which
undermine the economy, killing the goose which lays the golden
eggs, and the integrity of the political process. The author argues
that not only does taxation flout the principle of private
property, but it 'is a primal cause of both inflation and
unemployment. Regardless of this, the freely elected governments of
contemporary trading economies - with the acquiescence of their
electorates - persist in raising the major part, if not all, of
their revenues by means of taxation. The immediate cause of such
action by governments...is ignorance of any acceptable alternative
method of raising sufficient public revenue.' Burgess shows how the
development of Keynes' general theory of employment 'leads to the
conclusion that an open trading economy is likely to be most
competitive, and therefore most prosperous, only when taxation is
abolished' - but government must be funded. How can this be done
without taxation? To provide an answer he refines Alfred Marshall's
distinction between the public and private value of property to
reveal an alternative, peculiarly public source of revenue. Unlike
a tax, defined by a former Labour Chancellor, Hugh Dalton, as 'a
compulsory contribution imposed by a public authority, irrespective
of the exact amount of service rendered to the taxpayer in return',
the 'public value' identified by Marshall would deliver an exact
equivalence between the benefits enjoyed and the amount paid. On
the basis of this widely accepted definition, therefore, it is not
a tax but the price for services rendered like any other
transaction - the price fixed by the market. The author shows how
reform may be introduced with a minimum of disruption, so that
politicians with an eye to re-election can achieve measurable
results during the lifetime of a parliament.
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