Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration

by William F. Fox

Overview

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the major issues in state sales taxation. Topics such as taxation of services, mergers and acquisitions, nonprofit organizations, media, religious organizations, and international companies are analyzed by a group of the nation's leading experts on state taxation, including representatives of industry, government, and academia. The book identifies long-term qualitative and quantitative trends in the sales tax base and rates. Likely policy changes during the next decade are pinpointed and their implications discussed. Emerging sales tax problems are identified and analyzed, and techniques for integrating equity in sales tax design are included.

This unique volume will be of interest to tax planners and managers in business, and tax policy-makers and administrators in state and local governments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275940539
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/21/1992
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

WILLIAM F. FOX is Professor of Economics and Associate Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Frederick D. Stocker
Sales Tax Trends
Sales Tax Trends and Issues by Robert D. Ebel and Christopher Zimmerman
Sales Tax Policy During the Next Decade by Billy Hamilton and John Mikesell
A Symposium on the Sales Tax as Applied to Services Sales Taxation of Services: An Overview of the Critical Issues by Walter Hellerstein
Sales Taxation of Services: Has its Time Come? by William F. Fox
Sales Tax on Services: A Tax Administrator's Perspective by John P. James
Sales Tax on Services: State Trends by Laird Graeser and Allen Maury
Emerging Problems in Applying Sales Taxes The Sales Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions by Peter L. Faber
Sales Taxation of Nonprofit Organizations: Purchases and Sales by John L. Mikesell
First Amendment Limitations on Sales and use Taxation: What is Left after Leathers V. Medlock? by C. James Judson and C. David Jennings
Globalization of the Marketplace: Sales and Use Tax Implications by Wayne G. Eggert
Issues in Sales Tax Structures Simplifying the Sales Tax: Credits or Exemptions? by Steven D. Gold
Expanding the Sales Tax Base: Implications for Growth and Stability by Richard F. Dye
Selected Bibliography
Index