Title: Econmentor.com - Define progressive, regressive and proportional taxes
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Define progressive, regressive and proportional taxes
Content: Higher income people should pay more since they are capable of paying more. The fairness of progressive taxes are built on the fact that those who make more money should also contribute more to society in form of taxes. Those who make less, are less able to pay and so should pay less. The counter argument to progressive taxes is that it penalizes people who work harder and make more money. In a sense, you are being punished for your success. Those taxes are then used to fund social welfare programs that help raise the real income of the lower income group
Critics of the progressive tax consider it to be discriminatory and reduces the incentive to work hard and excel in life
3) Regressive tax: It is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount of taxable income increases. The higher income group pays less in taxes than the lower income group. Regressive taxes impose greater tax burden on the poor relative to the rich. In case of regressive taxes there is an inverse relationship between the tax rate and the taxpayer's ability to pay.