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Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015) by chimeracoder on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:50PM (#17753535)
> Removing deductions has nothing to do with the tax curve. You could do that with the current curve and tweak it accordingly.

In theory, but (serious) advocates of the flat tax generally are proposing both.

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Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015) by maxxxxx on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:59PM (#17753598)
My impression is that most advocates want the flat part which reduces taxes on high incomes and then are pretty hand wavy about deductions.
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Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015) by laingc on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:47PM (#17753879)
This might be the case in the US, but be aware that most advocates of flat taxes globally - including almost all economists who do so - advocate precisely for removing deductions.

In New Zealand, for example, all prominent advocates of flat taxes are also proponents of not following Australia or the UK's example of having GST/VAT exemptions for some categories of goods.

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