Taxation and Social Justice

TL;DR

This paper discusses the relationship between taxation types and social justice, emphasizing the need for tax systems to adapt to societal perceptions of fairness amidst changing environmental and social conditions.

Contribution

It highlights the importance of aligning tax systems with societal perceptions of justice to enhance fairness and acceptance.

Findings

Tax systems include progressive, proportional, and regressive types.

Justice in taxation is linked to societal perceptions and acceptance.

Tax system adaptation can improve perceived fairness.

Abstract

The link between taxation and justice is a classic debate issue, while also being very relevant at a time of changing environmental factors and conditions of the social and economic system. Technologically speaking, there are three types of taxes: progressive, proportional and regressive. Although justice, like freedom, is an element and manifestation of the imagined reality in citizens minds, the state must comply with it. In particular, the tax system has to adapt to the mass imagined reality in order for it to appear fairer and more acceptable.