First published in 1978, The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation presents the full findings and recommendations of the `Meade’ committee set up by The Institute for Fiscal Studies. It represents the most important contemporary examination of the structure of UK taxation and direct taxation systems in general. The results of two years’ intensive research and discussion by this independent committee are presented as a report under the joint authorship of an outstanding team of tax experts. The committee brought together professional practitioners-lawyers, accountants and taxation administrators-and academic specialists in fiscal studies, and here provides a unique review of direct taxation which is comprehensive, singularly original and full of good sense.
The book begins with a return to first principles, restates the objectives of a good tax system and analyses existing structures. It goes on to examine the feasibility of basic reforms which would allow the system to become more straightforward in operation and which would base taxation on what individuals take out of the economy rather than on what they put into it.

This ten volume backlist collection brings together an assortment of seminal works by highly influential British economist and Nobel Laureate James Meade. This comprehensive and diverse collection encompasses everything from economic growth, through to international trade, property ownership and his work on the principles of political economy.

Spanning more than 30 years in Professor Meade’s distinguished career, the reissued volumes in this collection, originally published between 1940 and 1976, offer a thorough and engaging insight into Professor Meade’s work, which will appeal to the general reader as well as to students of economics and professional economists.