"American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-80).
1. Introduction -- 2. Comparison of uniform pure income and consumption taxes -- 3. Consequences of shifting the tax base from income to consumption -- 4. Elimination of the differential taxation of capital inocme -- 5. Consequences of eliminating differential capital taxation -- 6. Role of household portfolio composition -- 7. Distributional implications of tax reform -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendix: effects of fundamental tax reform on asset prices