01714cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF009260 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451964578 1934-7456 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Shome, Parthasarathi. The Taxation of High Income Earners / Parthasarathi Shome. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Policy Discussion Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The 1980s trends were to lower marginal personal income tax rates, scale down rate structures, and apply the highest rate at lower levels of per capita GDP. In the 1990s, driven by fiscal deficits and unemployment, and difficulty in linking high marginal rates to low incentives or revenue productivity, tax authorities are again demonstrating an interest in increasing marginal rates. This will burden those that are correctly paying the tax. Instead, equity and revenue productivity should be improved through minimum taxes, presumptive taxes, adequate inclusion of capital income in the tax base, revitalization of property taxes, and selected luxury taxes. Mode of access: Internet IMF Policy Discussion Papers; Policy Discussion Paper ; No. 1993/019 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/003/1993/019/003.1993.issue-019-en.xml IMF e-Library