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Forms Of Taxation
Forms of taxation cover various types. The hunt for alternate taxation world-wide is pushed by two imperatives. At first, we need to eliminate the dependence on established sources of public revenue, without impoverishing governments of their funding. And secondly, the taxation is the least autocratic and invasive mode to check activities which are harmful to people and the entire planet. Even without really banning anything, taxation can promote people to act according to the interests of the common good along with meeting their own specific needs.

Conventional forms of taxation may be divided into five different categories. These are:

  • Local rates on land and property
  • Personal income tax
  • Taxes on consumption via VAT
  • Company profits tax
  • Levies on goods like petrol and alcohol
Leaving the last, all are taxes levied on the money which is earned by work. Thus, conventional taxation punishes work which makes income. This is the first reason for the replacement of conventional taxes. Furthermore, there are causes behind the drying up of conventional forms of taxation. The globalized markets in skills and capital mean that governments fears to introduce high tax regimes because of the probability of losing mobile factors of production. Thus they are impelled to reduce expenditure on public works and services which were formerly taken for granted. Secondly, with the ageing populations, it gets more difficult to finance the needs of the government from a lessening proportion of its citizenry. Thirdly, the growing volumes of e-commerce by the Internet denote the conduction of most of the transactions through internet which falls out of the remit of national taxation systems.

Therefore it is required to find different ways to bring up funds for the purse of the public. The New Economics movement feels that governments can raise more revenue than today, and it will have a benign effect on the future of the humanity and planet. Taxes on consumption and income are perverse if we need to encourage work. It’s true that as a redistributive tool, income tax bears some merit, since it can be tailor-made to different income levels. But VAT, the tax levied on consumption, is highly backward, being paid evenly by everyone. Thus, the poor people are the main sufferers of this rule.

Through different forms of taxation we can encourage new figures of economic activity and discourage some of the old ones. Mainly, we need to change activity away from the intake of limited or non-renewable resources and away from works which have damaging effects like the pollution of air, land and water. It has become crystal clear to all that the natural environment of the planet is under tremendous threat from advanced economies. It is also very clear that some forms of modern economic activity produce dangerous self-destructive imbalances and inequalities of access to financial gain at an exponential rate. The forms of taxation system could be a way to reconcile advanced and modern economies with favorable ecosystems, human fairness and sustainable economic systems.