Tax By Design - The Mirrlees Review

Based on the findings of a commission chaired by James Mirrlees, this volume presents a coherent picture of tax reform whose aim is to identify the characteristics of a good tax system for any open developed economy, assess the extent to which the UK tax system conforms to these ideals, and recommend how it might be reformed in that direction.

About the author

Sir James Mirrlees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and past President of the Econometric Society, the Royal Economic Society, and the European Economic Association, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees. Working primarily on the economics of incentives and asymmetric information, he founded the modern theory of optimal taxation, and was the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1996. He was knighted in 1997 for contributions to economic science. In 2009, he was appointed Founding Master of the Morningside College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Summary

Based on the findings of a commission chaired by James Mirrlees, this volume presents a coherent picture of tax reform whose aim is to identify the characteristics of a good tax system for any open developed economy, assess the extent to which the UK tax system conforms to these ideals, and recommend how it might be reformed in that direction.

Additional text

An extraordinary review of the tax system ... the most comprehensive and devastating indictment of the current situation.

Product details

• Authors: Institute For Fiscal Studies (Ifs), James A. (U Institute for Fiscal Studies Mirrlees
• Assisted by: Institute For Fiscal Studies (Ifs) (Editor), Institute for Fiscal Studies (Editor), James Mirrlees (Editor), James A. (University of Cambridge and Institute for Fiscal Studies) Mirrlees (Editor), Mirrlees James A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780198816386
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881638-6
• No. of pages: 554
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / Taxation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Taxation / Corporate, Taxation, Welfare economics, Public finance and taxation