Tax-Based Incomes Policies ALTHOUGH 1977 was a good year economically, unemployment and inflation are still serious problems. Over the last few months the outlook for inflation has worsened. Many believe that traditional monetary and fiscal policies will not be sufficient to do the job, as George Perry makes clear in his paper in this volume. And as Laurence Seidman suggests, novel tax incentives or disincentives are being advocated to provide a carrot or a stick to hold down wage and price increases. These tax-based incomes policies (TIPs) would permit a more aggressive use of monetary and fiscal policies without having to rely on direct controls to moderate wages and prices. While there has been some public discussion of the merits of various tax-based schemes such as those put forth by Arthur Okun or by Henry Wallich and Sidney Weintraub, little attention has been paid to the details of implementing them.1 This paper focuses on the administrative problems of TIP. A workable scheme must permit the Internal Revenue 1. Two exceptions are unpublished papers by Gerard M.
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