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Outline of a real tax revolution: A non-conformist programme to leave neoliberal capitalism, or a few ideas for policies that no longer have

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it was following the decision of the Holland government to cap the benefit of the family quotient that we started this article. It includes much earlier analyses that we had carried out on the need for a progressive gross wage and degressivity of net pay beyond a threshold of 32 hours per week to promote employment, as well as a discussion on VAT with a view to making it an instrument for steering the distribution and macroeconomic regulation replacing all the others. However, it was this decision of the government that prompted us to take over the pen, since, once again, we were witnessing a fiscal refocusing when we had the opportunity to at least rethink the tax policy on the family, other than that of all taxation as proposed here, in order to resolve one of the obstacles (the family quotient) to withholding tax which was also on the government’s agenda. This government decision also revealed its confusion over the different objectives of tax policy instruments. The aim of this article is to rethink taxation as a whole and to outline what could be a real tax revolution allowing the state to regain its power to steer the economy. During a period of turbulence, automatic control of the market cannot be left to orders. It is still necessary to give new levers to economic policy so that it can take over an aircraft which is probably left in the hands of automatic market piloting for too long. If, on the other hand, we do not want to fall into a French good, which consists of seeking to administer the economy in detail through all sorts of coercive bureaucratic rules, it is necessary to use transparent and ultra-simplified fiscal leverage, with incentives rather than bureaucratic requirements with often conflicting effects. Here we propose steering the national economy, based in particular on varying rates of a ‘super-VAT’.

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