Abstract
This paper addresses three questions: 1. Is regulation a legitimate goal for taxation? 2. Which tax is best suited for regulation? 3. Would it be better to allocate just one goal per tax among the major taxes (individual and corporate income tax and VAT)? It then analyzes the proposed bank tax and the enacted health care tax as regulatory taxes, and concludes that the first is desirable (as is a carbon tax) but the second is not.
Disciplines
Banking and Finance | Environmental Law | Health Law | Tax Law
Date of this Version
August 2010
Recommended Citation
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, "Taxation as Regulation: Carbon Tax, Health Care Tax, Bank Tax and Other Regulatory Taxes" (August 2010). University of Michigan Program in Law and Economics. Working Paper 21.
http://law.bepress.com/umichlwps-empirical/art21
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