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标题：A Wealth Tax Abandoned: The role of the UK Treasury 1974-6
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作者：Howard Glennerster
期刊名称：Japanese Studies Programme Papers
出版年度：2011
出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the importance of inherited wealth. In 1974 a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It left office without doing so. Using the official archives of the time and those of a key advisor this paper traces both the origins of the policy and its fate in Whitehall. It explores two related questions. What does this experience tell us about the role of the civil service in the policy process in the UK and what lessons might be learned by those wishing to tackle the issue of widening wealth disparities today?
关键词：wealth tax; policy process; UK Treasury