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Importance of Tax
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Aberystwyth University Taxation Mind Map on Importance of Tax, created by Harley Wickstead on 10/05/2013.
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Importance of Tax
Canons
Equity
Fair Tax
Horizontal everything is equal
Vertical is difference is difference
Effciency
Admin
Economic
Certainty
Knowing of tax liability
Convience
Easy and less cost
Admin Costs
Compliance Costs
Flexibility
Easy to cope with change
Poll Tax
First established in 1989 to replace property tax
Failed in 2003 and replaced with council tax
Why it failed?
Increase in convience (admin costs)
Massive drop in census and opinion polls
Was not redeemed fair
It was not very efficient as people did not pay their taxes
Is tax a necessary evil of modern society?
Good Points
Free Public Services (Law Enforcement and Defence)
Taxes go into fund things which we need
No international borrowing/debt
Taxes, allocation of economic resources, distribution of income and wealth, no tax means no benefits
Used to manage economy, employment levels, inflation, relationship with overseas trading and prices
Influence taxpayers behavior (smoking) , climate levy
Bad points
Prices increase (VAT)
Government could lend money but there is a limit to how much
Government use many ways to raise revenue but tax is the best way
As you can see the good points heavily out way the bad points
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