Michael A. Livingston (Rutgers-Camden) presents From Milan to Mumbai, Changing in Tel Aviv: Progressive Taxation in Italy, Israel, India and the United States today at NYU as part of its Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance series. Here is the part of the Introduction:

Although there is a great deal of scholarship on progressivity — and much of it is very good indeed — it tends to emphasize the experience of the United States and a few other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, that have rather similar economic and political structures. This focus makes it difficult to know if the apparent limitations of progressivity are inherent in the concept itself or are instead the products of a particular time and place….This article . . . considers progressive taxation and its fate in three foreign countries–Italy, Israel, and India–as well as the United States, for a total of four case studies.

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