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Who among the following has suggested tax on expenditure?
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- Dalton
- Kaldor
- Musgrave
- Gautam Mathur
- Dalton
Correct Option: B
Nicholas Kaldor’s seminal work, titled ‘An Expenditure Tax,’ was brought out in 1955. Kaldor asked to levy a tax on a person’s expenditure (consumption), instead of on his income. When expenditure is made the basis of taxation, the problems created by the non-comparability of various types of accruals of wealth resolve themselves. This was his major argument in favour of an expenditure tax.