Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

Name: Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691199542-V
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By Joel Slemrod

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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 hutsand, 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 dramaticfrom 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.

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Number of Pages:: 536
Release Date:: 2021-05-11
Publication Date:: 2021-04-06
Publisher:: Princeton University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 069119954X
ISBN13:: 9780691199542
Weight:: 1038 g
Height:: 160 cm
Width:: 242 cm
Thickness:: 43 cm

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