We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

1. Taxation and gender equality : a conceptual framework / Caren Grown -- 2. Methodology and comparative analysis / Caren Grown and Hitomi Komatsu -- 3. Gender equality and taxation in Argentina / Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, Natalia Gherardi and Dario Rossignolo -- 4. Gender equality and taxation...

Tax “justice” has become an increasingly central issue of political debate in many countries, particularly following the cardiac arrest of global financial services in 2008 and the subsequent worldwide slump in trade and production. The evident abuse of tax systems by corporations and rich...