Overview
- Editors:
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Gerald W. Scully
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The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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Patrick J. Caragata
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McCallum Petterson Financial Diagnostics Ltd., New Zealand
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Background
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- Gerald W. Scully, Patrick J. Caragata
Pages 3-16
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Taxation and Economic Growth
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- Johannah Branson, C. A. Knox Lovell
Pages 37-88
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- John Small, Patrick J. Caragata
Pages 89-96
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The Marginal Cost of Taxation
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- W. Erwin Diewert, Denis A. Lawrence
Pages 99-113
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Taxation and Employment
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Front Matter
Pages 127-127
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Income Distribution
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Front Matter
Pages 145-145
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- Gerald W. Scully, Adolf H. Stroombergen
Pages 173-191
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The Hidden Economy
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Front Matter
Pages 193-193
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- Patrick J. Caragata, David E. A. Giles
Pages 221-240
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Risk Profiling and Effective Tax Rates
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Front Matter
Pages 241-241
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About this book
Recently, a research program on the compliance costs and the economic effects of taxation in New Zealand was undertaken within the Inland Revenue Department. Taxation and the Limits of Government is an edited volume which presents the best of the papers that emerged from that research program. Topical coverage includes a brief history of reform in New Zealand, the effect of taxation on economic growth, the marginal cost of taxation, the employment effects of taxation, income distribution, the hidden economy and taxation, tax compliance, taxation and bankruptcy, and estimates of effective tax rates.
Editors and Affiliations
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The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Gerald W. Scully
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McCallum Petterson Financial Diagnostics Ltd., New Zealand
Patrick J. Caragata
About the editors
Gerald W. Scully is Professor of Economics in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA. In 1996 he was Visiting Professor at the Inland Revenue Department, Wellington, New Zealand.
Patrick James Caragata received his PhD in political economy from the University of Toronto in 1981. In June 1988 he moved to New Zealand and became chief economist at the Ministry of Energy where he redesigned the royalty regime for petroleum. His book Resource Pricing: Rent Recovery Options for New Zealand's Energy and Mineral Industries (1989) is now used as a standard reference tool for designing resource royalties in Asia and Latin America. In 1991 he became chief tax policy adviser with Inland Revenue in New Zealand. He redesigned the petroleum mining taxation regime in 1991, and worked extensively on international tax issues for several years. In 1994 he initiated the work to monitor the Health of the Tax System. As special adviser taxation economics he led the production of 37 working papers and the Report on the Health of the Tax System in September 1997. In October 1997 Dr. Caragata was appointed managing director of McCallum Petterson Financial Diagnostics Ltd. in Wellington. In 1998 he edited The Economic and Compliance Consequences of Taxation: A Report on the Health of the Tax System in New Zealand, also published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
