Sentences with phrase «regressive consumption taxes»

- From progressive income taxes to regressive consumption taxes, MSP premiums, and user fees for public programs and services.

Not exact matches

Cutting consumption taxes is regressive, many warned, because it rewards the rich with proportionately greater discounts (two per cent off the price of a BMW, they reasoned, is worth a lot more than two per cent off a Chevy Cavalier).

VATs are regressive, as they tax consumption rather than income and the poor consume a larger portion of their income.

Another criticism, typically from the other side politically, is that it is a regressive tax - usually a flat percentage of consumption.

As the authors suggest, their finding runs counter to conventional economic thinking that consumption taxes (including carbon taxes) are necessarily regressive when revenue treatment is ignored.

It's true that consumption taxes, a category including carbon taxes, are «regressive» — they take a larger share of income from low - income households — but that's true only when the use of the tax revenues is ignored.