Talk:Tax incidence

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I completely rewrote this article because it was both incorrect and offtopic. If you have comments, please make them! Mgunn 11:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow - nice job.. I'll try to read through it later this week. I added some of the "See also" back in. Morphh ^(talk) 19:17, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

This article has a narrow perspective now, though the quality of the present article is quite good. Tax incidence is not just an economic term to describe the way in which employers and employees bear the burden of taxation, but in a broader perspective, the way taxes are distributed among social classes or economic groups. It's not just about the efficiency issue or the effects of taxation on wages and employment. It's also a crucial concept in political economy to understand the way the process of state-building was managed in the past: its winners and losers. I think that the article would be better including a section reviewing that literature on political economy and the politics of income distribution, imho. --poldavo 03:01, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't realize that there is a process of merging and splitting articles to fill that article with the appropiate contents I was talking about in my previous comment. I find very adequate to incluide those general observations about progressive and regressive taxation inside that article. I will try to help with that. --poldavo 03:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)