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Difference between Proportional Tax and Progressive Tax

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In one liner Progress tax is the tax with the increasing tax rate on different slabs and Proportional tax is of fixes rate tax to all slabs&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">If the tax rate increases with gradual increase on income it is progressive tax&period; There are different slabs of incomes and proportional tax rates are defined by tax authorities&period;&&num;160&semi; It works as there are three slabs 0-1000&comma; 1000-50000 and 50001-Above with a respective tax rate of 5&percnt;&comma; 7&percnt; and 10&percnt;&comma; the tax calculation for a person with income of 35000 will be on 5&percnt; for first 10000 and 7&percnt; for balance 25000&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This tax is considered to be most justified&comma; as low income individuals have to pay less tax and more tax paid by high income people&period; Implementation is easy with less resistance by public&period; Progressive tax helps to decrease the inequality of wealth&comma; which leads to number of social benefits&period;&&num;160&semi; It is also a view that rich people have more assets e&period;g&period;&comma; land&comma; businesses&comma; assets etc&period; which took more government infrastructure to taken care of these assets&period; So it is expected that rich should pay more tax as compare to poor people&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Unlike progressive tax a fixed tax rate is charged for all income individuals in proportional tax rate&period; For instance if the tax rate is set to 10&percnt; it would be remain same for a person whose taxable in income is &dollar;10000 and also for a person whose income is &dollar;70000&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&lbrack;adsense1&rsqb;This system is not used in many developed economies and there is a debate that if this is a fair system or not&period;&&num;160&semi; Rate of tax is adjusted by keeping in view rich and poor people of a country&comma; in this way poor will be suffered form a tax rate that brackets them with rich people&comma; and also state suffers to collect revenue because greater tax revenue cannot be collected as high income individuals are paying the tax with general rate&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In most economies of the world progressive tax is being used&period; There are some countries of world&comma; which are using proportional tax rate as flat tax or with some modifications in proportional tax&period; Marginal flat tax&comma; flat tax with deductions and hall-rabushka flat taxes are also discusses in this domain&period;&&num;160&semi; Proportional tax rate follows the communism school of thought but in modern communist societies are also changing their tax structure&period;&&num;160&semi; <br &sol;>Progressive tax system has an impact of capitalism&period; It is said to be best system where state and public equally benefited of this method&period; The low income people have less tax burden whereas high income individuals pay more for contributed to the government’s earning&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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