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by HardCodedBias 100 days ago
I'm going to assume that you mean progressive INCOME taxation is the most efficient and fair...

Classically the ranking is :

  Least distortionary
  Land value taxes / recurrent tax on pure land rents
  Broad recurrent property taxes
  Broad consumption taxes (uniform VAT / sales tax)
  Tariffs / trade taxes
  Personal income / labor income taxes
  Corporate income taxes
  Transaction taxes 
  Most distortionary