Page 1 |
Previous | 1 of 10 | Next |
|
This page
All
Subset
|
Our self-assessment system is working rather well, yet both the government and practitioners are concerned with THE ETHICS OF THERE IS A GROWING SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN BUSINESS and in the professions. Writers on the new capitalism comment on the coupling of ingenuity and drive with social conscience. They discuss the obligation of business leaders to do more than make a profit, their obligation to their labor force, to consumers, and to the community as a whole. Those planning the training of business leaders for the 1980's stress the importance of a liberal education to enable these future leaders to live more and more in society, and in conformance with society. This area of social consciousness, or ethics, is of utmost importance in the field of taxes. When our society as a whole must shoulder the huge total tax burden, any shirking by one individual merely transfers a heavier load to the shoulders of another. President Kennedy expressed this well in his tax message of April 20, 1961: "One of the major characteristics of our tax system, and one in which we can take a great deal of pride, is that it 20 THE QUARTERLY
Object Description
Title |
Ethics of tax practice |
Author |
Alkire, Durwood L. |
Subject |
Tax accounting -- Professional ethics |
Personal Name |
Alkire, Durwood L. |
Portrait |
Alkire, Durwood L. |
Office/Department |
Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart. Seattle Office |
Citation |
Quarterly, Vol. 08, no. 1 (1962, March), p. 20-29 |
Date-Issued | 1962 |
Source | Originally published by: Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF image with OCR under text, scanned at 400dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi. Digital Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | Quarterly_1962_March-p20-29 |