Testimony
Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight
May 25, 1999
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Abstract
There are many items in the tax law that add significant complexity with little gain in some other area like equity or efficiency. Almost no one would introduce many provisions now in current law, if designing a Code from scratch. Once there, however, these complexities are hard to remove.
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