The Problems of Efficiency and Justice of Taxation in the Economic Theory and the Modern Practice
Abstract
The article notes that almost all the major representatives of economic science of the XVII–XXth centuries considered the principle of tax justice as a paramount one. The views of individual scientists to make taking away the natural rent the most important source of fiscal revenues for the Russian Budget are criticized. Relativity of competitive national tax system’s influence to the economic growth stability is determined. Dependence of the fiscal role of certain taxes’ sources in forming the State Budget of economic development stage is revealed. It is suggested to replace the assignment of the largest taxes for any budget level with their distribution among several levels. Inadequacy of the statements of efficiency and justice of income and social taxes in Russia is revealed.
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tax system, tax efficiency and justice, tax distribution, living wage and non-taxable minimum, income differentiation
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