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State Tax Policy : Recent Trends And Future Directions / Steven D. Gold -- Characteristics Of A Balanced And Moderate State-local Revenue System / Robert J. Kleine And John Shannon -- The Role Of Research In Formulating State Tax Policy / Robert D. Ebel -- The Role Of Tax Burden Studies In State Tax Policy / Donald Phares -- Interstate Tax Competition And Economic Development / Harold A. Hovey -- The Failure Of Tax Concessions As Economic Development Incentives / Larry C. Ledebur And William W. Hamilton -- Simplicity And Complexity In The Context Of A State Tax System / Richard D. Pomp -- Effects Of The Reagan Proposal In Massachusetts And New York / Howard Chernick And Andrew Reschovsky -- Implications Of Federal Reform For State And Local Governments / Albert Davis. Themes Of Federal Tax Reform For State Tax Policy / Steven D. Gold -- Personal Income Tax / Robert Cline -- General Sales Tax / John L. Mikesell -- Business Taxes / Robert P. Strauss -- Excise Taxes / Thomas F. Pogue -- Severance Tax Reform / James A. Richardson -- Death Taxes / Corina Eckl -- Farm Taxes / David L. Chicoine -- Tax Administration / Ira A. Jackson. Edited By Steven D. Gold. December 1986. Includes Index And Bibliographies.