Flat tax

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The study's methodology is shaky at best, and the jury on housing values is still out. Despite the forces allied against the flat tax, tax reform has grown steadily because the current tax system is so unpopular and the alternatives promise so muchBut in addition to the possibility of lower housing values, the flat tax poses several other serious problems too easily dismissed by its advocatesBusinesses may be the flat tax's second biggest obstacleBy reducing the cost of compliance with the tax laws and removing uncertainties about the tax situation, the flat tax would eventually benefit businessesHowever, they would see their tax burden rise by about two-thirds, on average, from 31 percent of the total tax burden to around 50 percentThis tax increase on businesses would result from the loss of deductions for state and local taxes and for employee fringe benefits, among other things. Though businesses will try to pass on these costs to consumers and employees-by raising prices and trimming fringe benefits, for example-shifting the nations tax burden to the business community will not produce successful tax reform