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Treasury I and the Tax Reform Act of 1986: The Economics and Politics of Tax Reform

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  • McLure, Charles E, Jr
  • Zodrow, George R

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During President Reagan’s State of the Union Address in January 1984, he requested that Treasury Secretary Donald Regan prepare “a plan for action to simplify the entire tax code so that all taxpayers, big and small, are treated more fairly.” In response, the Department of the Treasury spent ten months preparing a report to the President that has come to be called Treasury I (U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1984). This three-volume study explained the need for tax reform and the general directions such reform should take, provided a comprehensive set of proposals for reform of the income tax, and analyzed the feasibility and desirability of an American value-added tax. Following almost two years of public debate, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (hereafter the 1986 Act) became law on October 22, 1986. Though widely hailed as the most far-reaching reform of the nation’s tax system since the 1940s, if not since the introduction of the income tax in 1913, the 1986 Act falls far short of the promise of Treasury I…
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  • McLure, Charles E, Jr & Zodrow, George R, 1987. "Treasury I and the Tax Reform Act of 1986: The Economics and Politics of Tax Reform," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 37-58, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:jecper:v:1:y:1987:i:1:p:37-58
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    1. Galle, Brian, 2014. "The effect of national revenues on sub-national revenues evidence from the U.S," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 37(C), pages 147-155.
    2. Zodrow, George R. & Diamond, John W., 2013. "Dynamic Overlapping Generations Computable General Equilibrium Models and the Analysis of Tax Policy: The Diamond–Zodrow Model," Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, in: Peter B. Dixon & Dale Jorgenson (ed.), Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 0, pages 743-813, Elsevier.
    3. George R. Zodrow, 2019. "Capital Mobility and Capital Tax Competition," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: George R Zodrow (ed.), TAXATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Selected Essays of George R. Zodrow, chapter 18, pages 543-570, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    4. Zodrow, George R, 2003. "Tax Competition and Tax Coordination in the European Union," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 10(6), pages 651-671, November.
    5. McLure, Charles E, 1996. "The US debate on comsuption-based taxes: implication for the Americas," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 34292, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    6. Charles E. McLure, Jr., 1992. "The Political Economy of Tax Reforms and Their Implications for Interdependence: United States," NBER Chapters, in: The Political Economy of Tax Reform, pages 97-116, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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