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Definition of Regressivity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regressivity
Literary usage of Regressivity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tax Policy: Value-Added Tax: Administrative Costs Vary With Complexity and by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"But if such a distinction is not feasible, lower rates become less effective in
mitigating the regressivity of the VAT."4 Cnossen and others also argue that ..."
2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1900)
"A simple method by which the regressivity of the poll tax, a fault inherent in
that fiscal devise, may be corrected, is the inheritance or the income tax or ..."
3. The Wayward Welfare State by Roger A. Freeman (1981)
"Objections to consumption taxes relate to their regressivity: they equal a higher
percentage of the income of persons at the lowest income levels— who ..."
4. Studies in State Taxation with Particular Reference to the Southern States by Jacob Harry Hollander, Thomas Sewall Adams, George Ernest Barnett, Elbert Jay Benton, Charles Hillman Brough, Laurence Frederick Schmeckebier (1900)
"A simple method by which the regressivity of the poll tax, a fault inherent in
that fiscal devise, may be corrected, is the inheritance or the income tax or ..."
5. Climate Change, Economic Instruments and Income Distribution by David Harrison (1995)
"There may not be enough low-income households to capture the regressivity at the
low end of the income distribution found in other studies of energy use. ..."
6. Climate Change, Economic Instruments and Income Distribution by David Harrison (1995)
"There may not be enough low-income households to capture the regressivity at the
low end of the income distribution found in other studies of energy use. ..."
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