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Discuss the key problems with financing the statutory social services through the various forms of taxation.
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Got 59% Discuss the key problems with financing the statutory social services through the various forms of taxation. In this essay primarily I will discuss the various forms of taxation used by the government today, secondly I will conclude with the main problems the government face in relation to financing the statutory social services. Presently the largest source of income for financing the social services is from three sources, the first is from taxes (including rates) which accounts for 70%, secondly from social insurance or national insurance contributions which is 20% and thirdly from fees and charges making up 10%. There are quite a few differing forms of tax; the first I will discuss is direct and indirect taxation. Direct taxation is effectively taxes on income or wealth of households, local or central government can charge these and indirect taxes are taxes on use of income (Le Grand, Proper and Robinson...
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