This paper investigates the evolution of income inequality in Spain during its transition to democracy, suggesting a method for the correction of under-reporting of earnings and profits in the Household Budget Surveys' data. The contribution is twofold: the methodological proposal, based on...

Chapter 1: Modern taxation and the Spanish case -- Chapter 2: Historical background: the Spanish taxation prior to the tax reforms -- Chapter 3: Needs, rationals and reasons for tax reforms -- Chapter 4: Processes of tax reforms -- Chapter 5: Winners and losers in the reforms -- Chapter 6: End...

The main objective of this paper is to calculate the distribution of the tax burden across income levels in Spain between 1960 and 1990. The chosen period covers the final years of Franco's dictatorship and the first ones of the present parliamentary regime, and is thus meant to explore how...