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The Significance of Capital Gains to Farmers and Some Effects of Eliminating Their Preferred Income Tax Treatment*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

W. Fred Woods  and
Charles A. Sisson
W. Fred Woods
Affiliation:
NEAD, ERS, USDA
Charles A. Sisson
Affiliation:
NEAD, ERS, USDA
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The American experience with income taxes began with the Act of 1913, but it was not until 1921 that capital gains were identified separately and taxed differently from other sources of income. This fundamental revision of the income tax was justified on equity grounds; proponents of the change argued that it was unfair to tax income accrued over many years in the year that income was realized [6, p. 192].

The present capital gains provisions have been and are now—strongly attacked alternately as being too lenient and too strict [5, p. 184]. Unfortunately, this symmetry in the opposition to present capital gains treatment does not imply the present provisions are near the optimum.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , July 1975 , pp. 145 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1975

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Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, New Orleans, February 2-5, 1975.

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