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Indexing the Taxation of Saving

In: A Theory of Hedge Investment

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  • Brendan Brown

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At various stages in this book it has been illustrated how inflation uncertainty, which rises with the level of inflation itself, can seriously distort the direction of investment flows. Non-indexation of the taxation of savings causes monetary assets to be taxed at increasingly onerous rates as inflation rises, seriously aggravating these distortions. In the USA and Britain, governments have failed to index the taxation of saving despite inflation rates that have run well into double digits. Non-indexation has been a disincentive to the assumption of business risk. The wealth and power of tax-exempt institutions — pension funds and insurance companies — have been increased. Such distortions and redistributions were not planned. No politician in the mid-1960s drew up a war-plan, whereby an escalation of inflation was to stunt private savings and risk investment and to increase the power of the investment institutions. Yet no government has attempted seriously to attack the source of these developments.

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  • Brendan Brown, 1982. "Indexing the Taxation of Saving," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: A Theory of Hedge Investment, chapter 11, pages 195-210, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-06103-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06103-7_11
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