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There is no apparent advantage to be gained from adding the indirect taxation of the sources of investment income by  adding a tax on company profits  to its direct taxation as part of personal income taxation - although it  was suggested in the Meade Report that it might be considered to be a payment for the privileges of limited liability<ref>[http://www.ifs.org.uk/docs/meade.pdf, ''The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation'',  chapter 12, page 227]</ref>.
http://books.google.com/books?id=aWVIeNh-QMAC&dq=Taxation+of+Capital+Gains+of+Individuals:+Policy+Considerations+and+Approaches&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=lSvBnCNjZ2&sig=IC57PMayQcpusb2VDjfMunG44lM&hl=en&ei=crAmS5eEJIG8jAeIwozhBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 
W. Steven Clark, Taxation of Capital Gains of Individuals: Policy Considerations and Approaches OECD Tax Policy Studies No. 14 2006
Corporate taxation can affect productivity in several ways. It can distort relative factor prices and  re-allocation of resources towards less productive sectors. it imposes compliance costs on firms and administrative costs on governments, thereby diverting  resources from productive activities, and it  may reduce incentives to invest and  innovate. It may also impair technology transfer by detering foreign direct investment<ref>[http://www.ifs.org.uk/mirrleesreview/reports/conference_drafts/international_tax.pdf Rachel Griffith, James Hines and Peter Birch Sorensen:''International Capital Taxation'' (draft for the Mirrlees enquiry), 2009]</ref>. The deductability of interest payments favours established corporations that can readily finance their investments by borrowing at the expense of  innovative, knowledge-based and recently established firms that are riskier or less able to provide collateral, so have to obtain most of their funding from shareholders. Alternative forms of corporate taxation  that may mitigation those disadvantages have been proposed, including  the use of 100% "capital allowances" or the adoption of "flow-of-funds" taxation <ref>[http://www.ifs.org.uk/docs/meade.pdf]</ref>).  
 
 
 
<ref>Diamond and Mirrlees: ''Optimal Taxation and Public Production'', American Economic Review, Vol. 61. 1971</ref>
 


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http://books.google.com/books?id=aWVIeNh-QMAC&dq=Taxation+of+Capital+Gains+of+Individuals:+Policy+Considerations+and+Approaches&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=lSvBnCNjZ2&sig=IC57PMayQcpusb2VDjfMunG44lM&hl=en&ei=crAmS5eEJIG8jAeIwozhBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false W. Steven Clark, Taxation of Capital Gains of Individuals: Policy Considerations and Approaches OECD Tax Policy Studies No. 14 2006


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