Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages
Keen, Michael2022
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Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively increased revenue. In this book, two leading authorities on taxation, Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, provide a tour through these and many other episodes in tax history, both preposterous and dramatic - from the plundering described by Herodotus and an Incan tax payable in lice to the (misremembered) Boston Tea Party and the scandals of the Panama Papers.
Main title:
Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages / Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod.
Author:
Keen, Michael, authorSlemrod, Joel, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.
Collation:
536 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780691234021 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
336.2009
Language:
English
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BRN:
1981303
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