
Title
The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax
Files
Description
A Treasury official in the Bush Administration offers an insider's chronicle of the recent history of the tax system, shows how politicians have used it for their own ends, and evaluates the effects of current proposals for tax reform on average taxpayers.
ISBN
0393040615
Publication Date
1997
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
City
New York, NY
Reviews
“A must read for all who talk taxes and tax reform.”
—Senator Pete V. Domenici
“A superb overview of the federal income tax, by one of the nation's leading authorities, written with wit and a lively style.”
—Boris I. Bittker, Yale University
Disciplines
Accounting | Business | Law | Tax Law
Recommended Citation
Graetz, Michael J., "The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax" (1997). Books. 107.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/107
Comments
Reprinted with new afterword and appendix in 1999 under the title, The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here.