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U.S. and Swedish Trends in Tax Reform


Tax reform has become a major governmental policy issue in the United
States as well as in the rest of the world. Countries are attempting to balance
both economic efficiency and provide equity in taxation. Governments are
looking to rewrite tax codes to minimize their impact on economic growth.
Specifically, governments throughout the world are attempting to preserve
incentives built into taxation to maximize economic efficiency. At the same
time, these governments are trying to cope with the growth in social welfare
programs throughout the past three decades. In this paper I shall discuss two
nations which dramatically overhauled their tax systems, and whether or not
their goals with tax reform were achieved.
In the article "The tax reform act of 1986: Did Congress love it or
leave it?", Randall Weiss discusses the attitudes about taxes in the United
States. He details the events and attitudes leading to the Tax Reform Act of
1986,......

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