Talk:Tax reform

Merge

I don't think the US Tax Reform article is large enough to stand on its own when it could be a section in this article. This article is also small and could use the additional information. The two should be combined and when they get large enough.. then split. I suggest a merge. Morphh 04:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Morphh 04:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
2. Blast-san 09.12.06 1916 (UTC-5)
3. Duemellon 14:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC) (per other article talk)

I merged the articles. Morphh ^(talk) 01:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

wow tiny article

All this tea bagger talk, but almost no wikipedia article on tax reform. lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.2.153.174 (talk) 16:32, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Needs some organization/development

This article would benefit greatly from some organization. The introduction to this article is vague, and it probably confuses readers. It might be better to separate the different definitions of “tax reform” into subheadings with short descriptions. The introduction could also be reformatted into bullet form. For example...

Different kinds of tax reformers have different goals, some of which may include:

• Reducing the level of taxation of all people by the government
• Making the tax system more or less progressive
• Simplifying the tax system or making it more understandable

The section currently titled “United States” gives a history of tax reform movements. It would be more accurately titled “U.S. tax reform movements” or “Background on U.S. tax reform.” The last paragraph in the section describes recent attempts at tax reform, but it does not give context about when this movement began. This section could also benefit from subheadings separating tax reform movements from different time periods.

Most of the information that would be useful in this entry is already developed in the “Reform” section of the “Taxation in the United States” entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States#Reform). The tax reform entry could develop into an explanation of tax reform movements around the world, but it seems to be more focused on U.S. tax reform movements. Therefore, it could use an explanation of the different kinds of U.S. taxes that advocates want to reform.

The term “tax reform” refers to a very broad idea involving federal, state and local government laws about income, property and sales taxes. This entry should differentiate between those different types of tax codes.

Because it seems most Wikipedia users would be looking for information about tax code reform when searching for tax reform, maybe the title of this entry should be changed too. After all of this work, this article also needs some more information about discussions of U.S. tax reform in the political sphere. Tax code reform is often mentioned in the media, so it should be relatively easy to find reliable information.

Emilyhholden (talk) 01:06, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

"Tax reform" is one of those glittering generalities which nearly everyone supports, but disagree drastically about what it means. Each person tends to define tax reform as lowering taxes on people like themselves, and shifting more of the tax burden to people not like themselves. Perhaps a more NPOV title would be something like: "Proposed changes to the tax code". Regards Plazak (talk) 00:10, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't object to the use of the phrase "tax reform" as the title of the article, but I agree that "tax reform" as a general concept is whatever each individual wants tax reform to be. I recall the famous quote from the former chairman of the Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate, about how the U.S. federal income tax should work: "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree." --Senator Russell B. Long. Famspear (talk) 02:28, 19 February 2016 (UTC)