Title

The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax

Authors

Michael J. Graetz, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

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

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.

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