Tax Review: Adjusting Tax Rules for Inflation: Capital Gains and Capital Income

January 1, 1979

Martin S. Feldstein

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In this essay, Professor Feldstein emphasizes the need to adjust tax policy toward capital gains to reflect the effects of inflation, in order to achieve a more realistic measurement of capital income that is subject to tax.

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Martin S. Feldstein

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