January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
820 pages
38h 30m
English
CHAPTER OUTLINE
A tax which is paid by the person on whom it is legally imposed and the burden of which cannot be shifted to any other person is called a “Direct Tax”. J.S. Mill defines a direct tax as “one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it”. The person from whom it is collected cannot shift its burden to somebody else. Thus, we have the impact, that is, the initial, as the first burden and the incidence, the ...
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