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A Framework For Tax Reform
Released by Sonia Hoffman on 02/16/2005
IPI Issue Brief
Related Publication Title:
A Framework For Tax Reform
Released by Sonia Hoffman on 02/16/2005
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IPI Author Testifies Before the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Contact: Sonia Hoffman, shoffman@ipi.org, (703) 912-5742 office, or (202) 213-0379 cellular
(Washington, DC): Stephen J. Entin, co-author of a new Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) publication, "A Framework for Tax Reform," testifies today before the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.
According to the IPI policy report, our current federal tax system fails to raise the necessary revenue to fund government in an efficient manner, and in a way that accurately prices the cost of government so that voters can make intelligent decisions.
“The President’s tax reform commission should establish neutrality, visibility, fairness and simplicity as criteria for a reformed tax code that will improve the economy and promote better government,” say co-authors Stephen Entin and Lawrence A. Hunter.
“Any tax reform proposals should be judged on whether they will improve the functioning of the economy, raise living standards, reduce compliance and enforcement costs, and promote better government.”
Reform proposals that are designed with these principles will have a far greater chance of leading those outcomes than plans cobbled together with no vision and no guideposts.
Author interviews are available. The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is an independent policy organization with offices in Washington, DC and Dallas, Texas. For copies of “Framework for Taxation,” visit www.ipi.org or contact Sonia Hoffman at (703) 912-5742 or at shoffman@ipi.org.
Stephen Entin is the President and Executive Director of the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET). Lawrence A. Hunter is a Senior Research Fellow at IPI and Chief Economist at Freedom Works.
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