Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?

This paper describes and evaluates the tax regime that benefits private schools in Mexico, particularly in Mexico City. Its central claim is that this regime is incompatible with educational equality and justice. The main contribution of the paper is to examine primary and secondary empirical source...

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Main Author: Juan Espindola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 2016-11-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
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Online Access:https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2531
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spelling doaj-8899ba2db6564c6b9df80d2fc93480f12020-11-25T03:46:28ZengArizona State UniversityEducation Policy Analysis Archives1068-23412016-11-0124010.14507/epaa.24.25311563Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?Juan Espindola0Conacyt/Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)This paper describes and evaluates the tax regime that benefits private schools in Mexico, particularly in Mexico City. Its central claim is that this regime is incompatible with educational equality and justice. The main contribution of the paper is to examine primary and secondary empirical sources in light of the normative argument guiding this work. The first section of this work clarifies the central issues that will be addressed in the paper. The second section briefly describes the key features of the Mexican private educational sector and its tax regime. Finally, section three argues that this regime is regressive, and that the moral justifications usually invoked in its defense are untenable.https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2531educación privadajusticiaimpuestosMéxico
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México
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title Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?
title_short Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?
title_full Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?
title_fullStr Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?
title_full_unstemmed Private education and taxes: Is the tax regime for private schools just?
title_sort private education and taxes: is the tax regime for private schools just?
publisher Arizona State University
series Education Policy Analysis Archives
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publishDate 2016-11-01
description This paper describes and evaluates the tax regime that benefits private schools in Mexico, particularly in Mexico City. Its central claim is that this regime is incompatible with educational equality and justice. The main contribution of the paper is to examine primary and secondary empirical sources in light of the normative argument guiding this work. The first section of this work clarifies the central issues that will be addressed in the paper. The second section briefly describes the key features of the Mexican private educational sector and its tax regime. Finally, section three argues that this regime is regressive, and that the moral justifications usually invoked in its defense are untenable.
topic educación privada
justicia
impuestos
México
url https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2531
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