Timeline for Why isn’t the tax system continuous rather than bracketed?
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 17:15 | comment | added | Eric Buess | I suspect there is a deep flaw in my reasoning about this. Please help. I can see the necessity of calculating the area under the curve if the tax system is marginal. However, if it is continuous and non-marginal and the curve always either stays the same or moves up is it necessary to calculate the area under the curve? My assumption may be wrong but I was thinking that in this case we could just find the earnings amount, multiply it by the tax rate depicted for that earnings amount and be done. Perhaps this would not work? | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 19:41 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | "You want people to be able to understand their tax returns." I would like to believe that but is it actually true? Do people for example in the US understand their tax returns? | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 15:50 | comment | added | o.m. | @stanri, integrals are the area under the curve. I was thinking of a tax rate that scales with log(constant times income). | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 7:17 | comment | added | stanri | Isn't it integrals that are used to calculate the area under a curve, not logarithms? Nonetheless, having a taxation system people can't understand themselves is asking to stir up more suspicion and contempt. "I'm sure they're charging me more than they should..." | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @gnasher729 There are still plenty of people in the developed world who do not have easy access to the Internet. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:53 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @gnasher729 There's a reason that overreliance on "Expert Systems" lead to jokes about "Computer says 'No'"... | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 6:19 | comment | added | Kevin | @gnasher729: Meet the United States. The IRS has contracted a rather outrageous agreement with various tax-preparation companies to not develop such a thing, and in exchange the private companies offer similar services on their websites for free (but they aggressively try to upsell you to the paid product regardless of whether you need it, while simultaneously advertising the "free" product's existence to anyone who will listen). | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 3:53 | comment | added | Zeus | Those who don't understand logarithms should be taxed 100%, that's very clear and understandable (and only fair :) | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 1:40 | comment | added | Turksarama | @o.m. Enough people don't understand how tax brackets work already that I'm not sure most people would find a continuous curve more confusing at all. | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 19:07 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I don't need to know how tax is calculated if I can enter a salary of £44,999, £45,000 and £45,001 on a website and can see that either the tax is almost the same or not nearly the same. | |
| Jun 22, 2019 at 21:42 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | @gnasher729 If you are happy with that, you do not need any continuity requirement (and in fact would even ignore it if the function is not increasing) | |
| Jun 22, 2019 at 16:34 | comment | added | o.m. | @gnasher729, justice must be done, and it must be seen to be done. An algorithm people don't understand is problematic for that reason, even if there are tools. | |
| Jun 22, 2019 at 14:09 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Every country that I tried has some website where you enter your taxable income and it tells you the amount you have to pay. | |
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| Jun 22, 2019 at 4:26 | history | answered | o.m. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |