Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue (eBook)

Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod (Autoren)

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2021
536 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19998-6 (ISBN)

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An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments 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 entertaining book, two leading authorities on taxation, Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, provide a fascinating and informative 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. Along the way, readers meet a colorful cast of tax rascals, and even a few tax heroes.While it is hard to fathom the inspiration behind such taxes as one on ships that tended to make them sink, Keen and Slemrod show that yesterday's tax systems have more in common with ours than we may think. Georgian England's window tax now seems quaint, but was an ingenious way of judging wealth unobtrusively. And Tsar Peter the Great's tax on beards aimed to induce the nobility to shave, much like today's carbon taxes aim to slow global warming.Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue is a surprising and one-of-a-kind account of how history illuminates the perennial challenges and timeless principles of taxation-and how the past holds clues to solving the tax problems of today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 59 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Ability to pay • accountant • Agnes Mongan • America • americans • ancient taxes • Anecdotes • Art History • asset • At Best • Auction • Audit • Bibliography • bizarre • bribery • Budget • Capital Gain • Cash • Chancellor of the Exchequer • Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code • Chapter 9 • cheating • China • Commodity • Consideration • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Consumption Tax • corporate tax • Creditor • cruelty • Customer • Deadweight loss • Death and Taxes • debt • Deduction • Depreciation • developed country • Developing Country • direct tax • dividend • dog tax • dumbest taxes • Economics • economist • economy • Edition (book) • Edward Gibbon • Employment • English • Erwin Panofsky • evasion • excise tax • executive director • Exemption • Expenditure • Expense • Externality • failed • Finance • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • France • Fraud • Funding • government spending • Gratitude • Great Britain • Haven • History of Taxation • HM Revenue and Customs • huey long • Hut Tax War • Illustration • Incentive • income • Income Tax • Income tax in the United States • Inland Revenue • Interest • International Monetary Fund • International Taxation • Investment • Japan • Joseph Schumpeter • Legislation • Literature • Maori • Michelangelo • modern taxes • Monograph • Mr. • New Zealand • origin of income tax • Panama Papers • Paperback • Payment • Pension • Pigovian Tax • Policy • Politician • Poll • Poll Tax • preface • primary source • Princeton University Press • Property Tax • Protests • Provision (accounting) • Publication • Public Finance • receipt • Retail • Revenue • Richard Krautheimer • salary • Sales • saving • Seymour Slive • Shareholder • Slavery • Small Business • smartest taxes • Smuggling • Social Structure • stamp • strangest taxes • Subsidy • Successful • Suggestion • Supply (economics) • Supporter • tariff • tariffs • Tax • Taxable income • tax avoidance • Tax Collector • tax credit • Tax Cut • Tax deduction • Tax evasion • Tax exemption • Tax Incidence • Tax law • tax liability • Taxpayer • Tax Policy • Tax Rate • Tax Reform • tax revenue • tax revolts • Thomas Paine • Understanding • United States • use • U.S. state • VAT • Vlad the Impaler • wage • Wealth • Weird • welfare • window tax • withholding tax • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19998-1 / 0691199981
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19998-6 / 9780691199986