Sentence examples for some progressivity from inspiring English sources

In terms of equity and fairness, a GST increase is clearly regressive while there is some progressivity with an increase in the Medicare levy.

Proceeding in a similar way as when government tax proceeds were just wasted, it is possible to compute the proportional change in life-time benchmark private consumption that would leave agents indifferent between the resulting equilibrium for some progressivity index (phi ^*) and the equilibrium under the benchmark value (phi ^0).

Why not restore some progressivity to the tax structure?

And so the question is, is there a way of achieving simplification, but still having some element of progressivity and some element of fairness in the tax system?

Hubbard and Judd (1986) find that an exemption and a higher marginal tax rate can in some cases improve efficiency relative to a proportional tax, so that some degree of progressivity may be desirable.

I'm all for fixing our tax system to close loopholes and restore some of the progressivity that has been lost.

At any rate, and for the parameter values considered, optimality requires some degree of progressivity.

At Halle University, out of 106 respondents, 34.9% picked the proportional rule and 30.2% chose rule F which may be interpreted as some kind of progressivity though the upper three groups are taxed proportionally.

"It's not like there is some scientific measure of progressivity all economists agreed upon," said Leonard E. Burman, a professor of public affairs at Syracuse University.

As Richard Blundell of University College, London, points out, one of the more redistributive societies on earth, Denmark, does pretty much what the panel recommends.The Mirrlees review also has some interesting thoughts on progressivity itself.

Thus even the flattest proposals involve some -- yes! -- progressivity.