State Taxation and Fiscal Federalism: A Blueprint for Further Reform

Robert CarlingNovember 3, 2006PM73

This paper identifies major structural flaws in our current taxation system and develops a set of radical proposals to put them right. The flaws it identifies lie in the fiscal relation between the Commonwealth and the states, and it is this specific focus that makes Carling’s contribution to the tax reform debate so distinctive and important.

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