CLASSIC AND MODERN CONCEPTS ON TAX AND TAXATION SYSTEMS*

Abstract

The study of taxes has been an important concern of a great number of economists of all times, doctrines and currents of economic thinking. This paper presents some representative opinions of some foreign and Romanian, classic and contemporary economists regarding taxes. This study also provides a scientific selection of the opinions regarding the actual tax instruments, in order to group the main theories about taxes by author (school, direction of thinking), or theories elaborated by them, ideas that Romanian taxation has taken more or less in its practice.

Keywords

• tax system
• taxation
• tax
• tax reform
• principles of taxation