Download or read book The Taxation of Income from Capital written by Mervyn A. King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxation—both corporate and personal—has been held responsible for the low investment and productivity growth rates experienced in the West during the last decade. This book, a comparative study of the taxation of income from capital in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and West Germany, establishes for the first time a common framework for analysis that permits accurate comparison of tax systems.