The very word taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet, very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. Charles Adams changes that in this fascinating history. Taxation, says Mr. Adams, has been a catalyst of history, the powerful influence if not the direct cause of many of the famous events of history that have marched across the world's stage as empires collided and battled for the right to tax the loser. For Good and Evil is the first book to examine how taxation has been a key factor in world events. Like the Rosetta Stone - a tax document - the book sheds fresh light onto much of history. Did you know that biblical Israel split after Solomon's death because his son refused to cut taxes? That Rome rose to greatness due to a liberal tax regime but declined under corrupt and inefficient ones? That in Britain, Lady Godiva made her famous ride as a tax protest? That in Switzerland William Tell shot the apple off his son's head as punishment for tax resistance? Or that Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, was a Customs House? Combining facts with thought-provoking comment he frequently draws parallels between tax events of the past and those of the present. Finding fault with the way Western civilization is taxed, Adams provides ideas for curing those faults by using the valuable lessons that history has taught. The special value of this refreshing new look at history lies in the lessons to be drawn by all thinking taxpayers. "Taxes are the fuel that makes civilization run, but how we tax and spend determines to a large extent whether we are prosperous or poor, free or enslaved, and most importantly, good or evil". Once you read ForGood and Evil, you'll never feel the same about taxes!

This volume contains a stimulating collection of analytical studies focusing on taxation in Mozambique. It tells a compelling story about tax systems in a low income economy increasingly integrated into the world trading system, but very much dependent on foreign trade taxes and international development assistance.

Key issues covered include:

• A better understanding of the historical background of tax reforms in a representative African economy (Mozambique) along with an assessment of taxation performance in a comparative perspective.
• Insights into the practice and implications of tax policy, both from the perspective of the consumer and the firm level.
• Discussion of the existing institutional set up in which tax policy and its enforcement operate and analyses of current tax practices.
• Taxation themes at the border and at domestic level, which are typical for low-income economies, characterized by a high degree of reliance on foreign trade taxes.

This volume is meant as a guide for developing country government officials and professional aid practitioners as well as academics, researchers and tax policy analysts working in the development field. It will also be of interest to students of development with a special interest in public finance issues in poor countries and how to improve policy-effectiveness, including tax policy, in a developing country setting.

Lifetime distribution and redistribution is analysed in this book, in far more detail than has been attempted before. A dynamic cohort microsimulation model is used as an exciting new tool to analyse several questions which have previously been almost impossible to answer. These questions concern income distribution and redistribution, social security and income tax incidence. This book will be of interest to those working in social and economic policy who are concerned about such issues. It will also be of interest to the rapidly growing numbers of researchers and government analysts constructing microsimulation models.

Fiscal policy has always been a primary measure of macroeconomic control. The fiscal revenue and expenditure can influence the operation of the whole economic and social activities by changing the existing GDP distribution pattern, affecting the consumption and investment of enterprises and people, etc. Within the framework of macroeconomic analysis, this book reviews the evolution of China's fiscal policy, and the main changes China's economy has experienced since 1990s. To begin with, it makes an empirical research of China's national debts, including their relationship with macroeconomic regulation and total social demand. Besides, it examines the economic effect mechanism of national debts issuance. Then it focuses on the taxation issues, elucidating the sources of tax revenue growth and the judgments on tax burden. The issue of tax reduction is also covered, especially its complexity in China. Lastly, it provides insights into China's fiscal tendency, changes of macroeconomic policies, and financial operation in the context of the "New Normal". Scholars and students in economics, finance and Chinese economic studies will be attracted by this book. Also, it will appeal to readers interested in modern Chinese economic history.

'This is one of those rare technical books which has an importance outside its own field' The Daily Telegraph.
'One of the most stimulating post-war books on public finance' The Guardian.
Part 1 examines the issue of Expenditure Tax in principle and includes chapters on the following:
* Income, Expenditure and Taxable Capacity
* The Concept of Income in Economic Theory
* Taxation and Savings
* Taxation and risk-bearing
* Taxation and the Incentive to Work
* Company Taxation
* Taxation and Economic Progress
Part 2 examines the issue of Expenditure Tax in practice, asking whether personal expenditure tax is practicable and putting forward a proposal for Surtax Reform.

Tax and Financial Planning for the Closely Held Family Business serves as a manual to help business advisers devise strategies for clients dealing with family issues. Guiding family businesses through the complex maze of organizational, tax, financial, governance, estate planning and personal family issues is a complex, time-consuming, difficult, and sometimes emotional process. This book focuses not only on identifying the problems family businesses face, but on devising solutions and planning opportunities for both family businesses and their owners. Tax and Financial Planning for the Closely Held Family Business provides traditional planning techniques as well as many often overlooked non-traditional strategies. The authors, who are Attorneys/CPAs with extensive experience representing family businesses, discuss the role of the family business advisor in dealing with the issues that confront businesses and their owners. Many family business owners may find that the timely involvement of a wise, experienced and careful business adviser can protect the owners from business and family crises. Practitioners, law libraries and law firms will find that each chapter of Tax and Financial Planning for the Closely Held Family Business contains creative planning opportunities that can be studied and implemented in order to solve real problems in the closely held family business.

When thirteen machine shop workers from Ohio won a $295.7 million lotto jackpot, the largest ever, it made headlines. But the real story is that the lottery is a losing proposition for the vast majority who play it.

Hitting the Lottery Jackpot provides the hard truth to the questions everybody asks: What are my chances of winning? Doesn't the money go to education? Isn't it harmless? This concise book explains who really profits from lotteries-advertising agencies, TV stations, and ticket vendors-and that shows only about half the money wagered is returned as prizes, the rest pocketed by state governments. Hitting the Lottery Jackpot also demonstrates who loses: lower-income groups and people of color, who spend a much higher percentage of their income on lotteries than others.

David Nibert connects the rise of lotteries, illegal in every state before the 1960s, to the economic stagnation beginning in the 1970s, when budgetary crises prompted legislatures to seek new revenues. Difficult economic times produced uncertainty and anxiety for the working class, leading many poor and middle-income people, yearning for security, to throw away huge sums on lotteries they stand almost no chance of winning. Finally, Nibert explores the ideological dimensions of the lottery-the get-rich-quick individualism that they promote among the very groups who would be better served by political action and solidarity.

Hitting the Lottery Jackpot is a powerful case for seeing lotteries as a pernicious government tax on the poor, seductively disguised as fun.

This book provides a theory capable of explaining the patterns of public expenditures and taxation that occur under representative government. Economists and political scientists have come to realize that issues of public policy and public finance cannot be solved on the naive assumption that these are problems tackled by a government that exists only to serve the public good. Instead, government must be understood as one of the major economic institutions of society, one that behaves like more familiar economic institutions--the household and the firm--though the market it confronts is a market for policies rather than for goods and services. Albert Breton's pathbreaking work remains important in taking us toward a theory of representative government that enables an understanding of the observed behavior of political institutions.

The author's analysis is cast in a relatively simple demand, supply and demand-supply-equilibrium framework, using the tools of marginal and stability analysis to explain the forces that influence and determine the flow of resources as they are allocated between competing ends in the public sector. The book presents a model of demand by citizens, who are assumed to be maximizing their desires for specific public policies and private goods, and a model of the supply of public policies by politicians and bureaucrats, who are assumed to be maximizing the probability of their re-election and the size of their budgets. Breton defines government policies and the institutional framework for collective choices in terms that render them amenable to further analysis.

The main accomplishment of Breton's theory is that it provides the ability to analyze the interaction of individuals and generates testable propositions about the behavior of these individuals as well as about the behavior of public expenditures and taxation in more aggregative terms. In this way the book will be useful to students of economics, economists, and those interested in economic theory.

"Albert Breton" is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto. He was once director of research for The Social Research Group in Montreal. His articles have been widely published in major journals and some of his recent books include "Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics" and "Political Extremism and Rationality" (with Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe) and "Bijuralism: An Economic Approach" (with Michael J. Trebilcock).

"Advances in Taxation" publishes articles dealing with all aspects of taxation. Articles can address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. The series primarily publishes empirical studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning, or policy issues. These studies generally involve interdisciplinary research that incorporates theories from accounting, economics, finance, psychology, and/or sociology. Although empirical studies are primarily published, analytical and historical manuscripts are also welcome.

This book examines the present status, recent tax reforms and planned tax policies in some South and East Asia countries since the 1990s. The evidence is presented in a user friendly manner, but at the same time uses technically sophisticated methods. The main countries studied are China, India, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand.

It is unique for being the first systematic treatment of the topic: hitherto, the information available has been widely dispersed and difficult to access. It should prove to be a natural companion to two previous books on taxation published by Routledge and also edited by Luigi Bernardi.

EG Council Tax Handbook is a timely publication. The text is easy to understand and very comprehensive. This volume helps to define the council tax in various contexts.

This engaging and accessible book is a must-read for every taxpayer, young and old. It explores the many forms of taxation; how taxes are created, collected, and spent; and why certain aspects of taxation are so controversial. "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin wrote this now-famous quote more than 200 years ago, and taxation remains just as important (and inevitable) today as then. Taxes are a fact of life for almost everyone, and the public goods and services they pay for are enjoyed by all citizens. While taxes are undeniably necessary, the specifics of what should be taxed, who should pay taxes, and at what rate remain hotly debated by economists, government officials, and regular citizens. The first in Greenwood's new Student Guides to Business and Economics series, Taxation gives readers an in-depth yet reader-friendly look at one of economics' foundational concepts. Using simple language and relevant real-world examples, the book explores the different forms of taxation, the necessary components of any tax, how taxes are created and collected, and much more. It also highlights contemporary controversies related to taxation, including whether or not "sin taxes" actually discourage unwanted behaviors like smoking and how best to simplify the tax filing process. Provides a concise and easy-to-read overview of a broad and foundational topic in economics Demonstrates to readers why taxes are important and helps them better understand how tax revenue is spent for the public good Includes a Questions for Further Discussion section designed to stimulate classroom discussion and encour-age critical thinking Offers an at-a-glance chronology of events related to the history of taxation, allowing readers to trace the evo-lution of ideas and practices related to taxation through history

This book, first published in 1985, investigates the enactment of the federal income tax as a case study of an important Progressive Era reform. It was a critical issue that likely divided people along socioeconomic lines, thus helping to provide insight into the debate over the 'class origins' of the reformist movement.

This work, first published in 1913, deals with the causes which led to the imposition of the various taxes which were levied down to and including the first income tax act (1799). Indeed, for an understanding of the system of taxation of the nineteenth century a knowledge of that which preceded it is necessary. The author begins by an explanation of the Tudor and Stuart finances before the time of the civil war at which point the break-down of the former system, as well as the need for a much larger revenue, resulted in important changes in the method of taxation.

In this book, first published in 1939, an analysis is given of the incidence both of partial income taxes, that is of income taxes which are levied on the incomes arising from particular lines of industry, and of a general income tax.

This book, first published in 1987, is a study of the political processes that underlie the determination of taxation - and much else - in the centuries-old government of Britain. Governments inherit a large legacy of policies, and it is the inertia force of past commitments that determine much of what a government does. This is especially true of taxation, and this book explores the forces at work on the policies of taxation. It also helps us understand what might be the future of taxation.

Economists studying comparative economic systems have generally neglected the important question of taxation in socialist countries. This is somewhat surprising since taxation plays an important role in the regulation of economic activity in these countries. This book, first published in 1985, aims to restore the study of taxation to its rightful role in comparative economic studies. It stresses the importance of taxation and the state budget and argues that these are tools of economic policy which complement central economic planning.

This study, first published in 1994, examines an important issue, the repeal of the thirty percent withholding tax imposed by the US on interest payments to non-resident alien individuals and foreign corporations, that is emblematic of the US quest for foreign capital in the 1980s. It presents an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary analytical approach to show how important the access to foreign capital had become on the eve of the US turning into a debtor nation.

This book, first published in 1971, presents an analysis of the taxes levied on wealth or capital - death duties, annual wealth taxes and capital gains taxes. It provides a comprehensive study of these taxes, and recommends a series of measures, including the replacement of certain taxes, that would promote equality. The book also provides a masterly historical summary of death duties in the UK.

Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions in the new and potential EU Member states to those in the long-standing EU countries. Topics covered include:

* A Comparative View of Taxation in the EU and in New Members
* Tax Policy in EU New Members
* Tax Policy in New Members under the Stability Pact
* Tax Administration and the Black Economy.

As well as investigating countries such as the Czech Republic, Estonia and the Baltics, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, this outstanding book contains a foreword by Vito Tanzi and will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and professionals in the fields of economics, politics, finance and European studies.

As experience with decentralization has accumulated, perceptions of both the problems that often accompany decentralization and the best ways to deal with them have evolved. This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual practice of subnational government finance. The extensive literature about the theory and practice is surveyed, and longstanding problems and new questions are addressed. There is no simple or single way to get decentralization right. To be successful, scholars of fiscal decentralization must pay close attention to the unique political, economic, and institutional context and objectives in each country. The authors focus on the key choices that must be made in decentralizing, on how economic and political factors shape the choices that countries make, and on how, by paying more attention to the need for a more comprehensive approach and the critical connections between different components of decentralization reform, everyone involved might get more for their money. Bahl and Bird have created a valuable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners from economics, public administration and management, planning, policy analysis, and political science.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
List of Sections

Diverse Taxing Terms and Strategies

Al-musadara system (Moslem Near East)
Corporate 'Inversion' (United States)
Firma burghi (Great Britain)
Rural Patronage (Roman Empire)
Tax Avoidance
Tax Evasion
Tax Farming
Underground Economy (frequently referred to as 'the black Market')

Ancient World

c. 2350 BC - Urukagina's Reform (Babylonia/Sumer)
2000 BC - Kiddinutu (Assyria)
431 BC - Delian League Revolt (Greece)
c. 338 BC - Khabbash Revolt (Egypt)
c. 360 or 361 BC - Rebellion against Tachos (Egypt)
240-237 BC - Mercenary War (Carthage, North Africa)
220 BC - Rhodes/Byzantium War (Near East)
c. 220 BC ff. - Tax Farming Controversy (Palestine, Egyptian Kingdom)
c. 200 BC - Sitologi Protests (Egypt, third century BC)
191 BC ff. - Li-t'ien (China)
141 BC ff. - Tax Remission (China)
113 BC - Black Market Complaint (Egypt)
81 BC - Discourses on Salt and Iron (China)
67 BC - Hyrcanus Opposition (Judaea)
44 BC - Opposition to Triumvirs' Taxes (Roman Empire)
43 BC - Asian Tax Resistance (Roman Empire)
26-24 BC - Thebaid Revolts (Egypt, Roman Empire)
AD 6 - Senate Tax Opposition (Roman Empire)
AD 9 ff. - Wang Mang's Reforms (China)
AD 17-24 - Tacfarinas's Revolt (North Africa, Roman Empire)
AD 21 - Treveri and Aedui Rebellion (Gaul, Roman Empire)
AD 28 - Frisian Rebellion (Roman Germany)
AD 30 ff. - Land Tax Riots (China)
AD 36 - Cietae Rebellion (Cappadocia)
c. AD 39 - Roman Tax Protest (Rome)
AD 55 - Egyptian Practors' Appeal (Egypt, Roman Empire)
AD 58 - Nero's Tax Reform (Rome)
AD 60 - Iceni Revolt (Britain)
AD 66-70 - Judaea Revolt (Judaea, Roman Empire)
AD 68 - Gaul Revolt (Gaul province, Roman Empire)
AD 71 - Temple-Tax Resistance (Judaea and Egypt, AD 71 and ff.)
AD 116 - Commanderies Tax Revolt (China)
AD 212 - Constitutio Antoniniana (Egypt)
AD 238 - Carthage Rebellion (Roman Empire)
AD 284-305 - Agri deserti (Roman Empire)
AD 297 - Egyptian Revolt (Roman Empire)
AD 306 - Roman Revolution, or Maxentius's Revolt (Rome, Roman Empire)
AD 284-305 ff.- Agri deserti (Roman Empire)

Early Middle Ages, AD 365-1199

365-66 - Revolt of Procopius (Roman Empire)
372 - Rebellion of Firmus (North Africa, Roman Empire)
374-375 - Mauretanian Rebellion (Africa, Western Roman Empire)
375 - Pannonian Tax Resistance (Pannonia, Roman Empire)
376 - Fritigern's Rebellion (Thrace, Eastern Roman Empire)
387 - Antioch Rebellion (Eastern Roman Empire)
c. 400 - Gallic Traders' Tax Avoidance (Gaul, Roman Empire)
c. 400 ff. - Bagaudae Revolts (Gaul)
450 - Valentinian III's Constitution (Rome, Roman Empire)
458-459 - Refusal to Pay Tribute (Byzantium, formerly Eastern Roman Empire)
c. 460 ff. - Buddhist Clergy Growth (China)
c. 464-465 - Bibianus's Mission (Gaul)
502 - Refusal to Pay Tribute (Byzantine Empire)
c. 528 - Tarsus Protests (Eastern Roman Empire)
532 - Nika Revolt (Byzantium)
540 - Lazica Revolt (Lazica, now Jordan)
c. 544 - Injuriosus's Protest (Kingdom of the Franks)
548 - Stoning of Parthenius (Kingdom of the Franks)
578 - Limoges Riot (Kingdom of the Franks)
c. 582 ff. - Falsification of Records (China)
589 - Bishop Gregory's Tax Resistance (Kingdom of the Franks)
645 - Alexandria Uprising (Egypt)
665 - Gennadius's Tax Rejection (Egypt, Byzantine Empire)
687 - Ling-nan Rising (China)
711 ff. - Suppressing Buddhist Tax Evasion (China)
721 ff. - Re-registration Opposition (China)
722 - Papal Tax Rejection (Italy, Byzantine Empire)
727 - Cosmas's Revolt (Greece, Byzantine Empire)
820-823 - Thomas the Slav Revolt (Byzantium)
821 ff. - Tea Tax Evasion (China)
874 ff. - Banditry (China)
882 - Limonta Peasants Protest (Italy)
Early 900s - Bedouin Revolt (Iraq)
913 and ff. - Bulgarian War (Byzantine Empire)
917 - Basra Riot (Iraq)
934 - Slav Tribute Rebellion (Byzantine Empire)
969 - Fostat Revolt (Egypt)
991 - Danegeld Resistance (Britain)
994 - Church Council (France)
1003 - Church Tax Opposition (Byzantine Empire)
1040 - Bulgarian Revolt (Byzantine Empire)
c. 1042 ff. - Military Dismantling (Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire)
c. 1057 - Lady Godiva's Ride (England)
1188 - Saladin Tithe Protest (France)
1197 - German Tax Opposition (Byzantine Empire)
1198 ff. - Tithe Controversy (Poland)

Late Middle Ages, 1200-1500

1207 ff. - Tithe Conflict (Poland)
1215 - Magna Carta (England)
1222 - Golden Bull Exemption (Hungary)
1224 - Abbott of Battle vs. William (England)
1237 - Aids Resistance (England)
1241- Mintey Resistance (England)
1248 ff. - Tithe Opposition (Poland)
1270 - Parlement Decree of 1270 (France)
1280 - Fralse (Sweden)
1282 - Sicilian Vespers Revolt (Sicily)
1285 ff. - Anatolian Rebellions (Asia Minor, Byzantium)
1289 - Tax Resistance (Florentine Republic, Italy)
1296 - Cistercian Order Tax Uprising (France)
1297 - Maltolt Opposition (England)
1297 ff. - Papal Tax Opposition (Italy)
1300 - Charles of Valois Aid Protest (France)
1303 - Althing Remonstrance (Iceland)
1304 - Flanders Peasant War (France)
1304 - Bithynia Tax Revolt (Byzantine Empire)
1308 - Marriage Aid Protest of 1308 (France)
1314 - Burgundy, League of (France)
1314 - Nobles Revolt of 1314 (France)
1321 - Thrace Tax Exemption (Byzantine Empire)
1323 - Populares (France)
c. 1330 - Fordwich Attack (England)
1332-1334 - Peasants Revolt (India)
1334 - Parlement Decree of 1334 (France)
1337 - Languedoc Arriere-ban Protest (France)
1338-1339 - Protest Poems and Songs (England)
1339 - Norman Estates Tax Charter (France)
1340-1342 - Lincolnshire Inquiries (England)
1341 - Rejection of Estimo (Florentine Republic, Italy)
1341 - La Puy Salt Tax Protest (France)
1343 - Crisis of 1343 (France)
1343 - Brienne's Downfall (Florentine Republic, Italy)
1346 - Estates of Languedoil (France)
1348 - Normandy Riots (France)
1350s - Boendur Revolt (Iceland)
1351 - Rouen Rising (France)
1351-1368 - Lower Yangtze Rebellions (China)
1354 - Rienzo's Demise (Italy)
1356 - Navarrese Tax Opposition (France)
1358 - Jacquerie (France)
1360-70 - Venice Salt Makers Tax Opposition (Italy)
1363 - Ransom Protest (Scotland)
1369 - Acquitaine Revolt (France)
1378 - Languedoc Uprising (France)
1379 - Ghent Revolt (Flanders)
1381 - Aides Uprisings (France)
1381 - Wat Tyler's Rebellion (Great Britain)
1388 - Remensas' Protests (Spain)
1391 - Barcelona Riots (Spain)
1393 - Eyjafjord Tax Resistance (Iceland)
1400 ff. - Cuetaxtla Protest (Mexico)
1413 - Estates-General Reforms (France)
1425 - Catasta Debate (Florence, Italy)
1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion (England)
1461 - Rheims Tax Revolt (France)
1462 - Remenca Serfs Rising (Spain)
1465 - 'War for the Public Weal' (War of the League of the Public Weal) (France)
1480 - Muscovy Tribute Resistance (Russia)
1484 - Tours States-General (France)
1489 - Yorkshire Rebellion (England)
1497 - Cornish Risings of 1497 (Cornish Rebellion) (England)

Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1500-1700

1502 ff.- Bundschuh (Germany/Switzerland)
1514 - Agen Revolt (France)
1514 - 'Poor Conrad' Rebellion (Arme Konrad) (Germany)
1520-21 - Great Revolt in Castile (Spain)
1524-25 - Peasants' Revolt (Peasants' War, Bauernkrieg) (Germany/Austria)
1525 - Amicable Grant Resistance (England)
1529ff. - Tithe Payers' Strike (France)
1536-37 - Pilgrimage of Grace (England)
1537 - Montelimar Exemption Protest (France)
1536 ff. - Ghent Revolt (Flanders, Belgium, Holy Roman Empire)
1540s - Telemark Uprising (Norway)
1542 - Gabelle Revolt (France)
1542 - Nils Dacke Rising (Sweden)
1543 - Export Duty Resistance (Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire)
1543 - 1545-Cortes Tax Refusals (Spain)
1548 - Guyenne Revolt (France)
1549 - Western Rebellion (England)
1563-1564 - Tax Farming Complaints (Ottoman Empire)
1564 - Parlement Tax Act (France)
1567ff. - Revolt of the Netherlands (Spanish Habsburg Empire)
1567 ff. - Reichenstein Rising (Austria)
1570s - Trondelag Uprising (Norway)
1572 - Census Opposition (Cyprus, Ottoman Empire)
1573 - Tithe Opposition (Sweden)
1573 - Croat Rising (Hungary, Austrian Monarchy)
1573-1577 - Castile Tax Resistance (Spain)
1576 - Cahier de doleance (France)
1578 - Anti-tax League (France)
1580 - Carnival in Romans (France)
1582 ff. - Haute-Uzege Revolt (France)
1586 - Gautiers Revolt (France)
1589 ff - Millones Protests (Spain)
1590s - Campaneres (France)
1591-1594 - Rappenkrieg (Switzerland)
1592 - Tunja Sales Tax Revolts (Colombia)
1594 ff. - Peasants' Revolt (Austria)
1593-95 - Vivarais Uprising (France)
1594 - Michael's Revolt (Romania, Ottoman Empire)
1595 - Third Estate Appeal (France)
1595-1597 - Peasant Risings (Austria)
1596 - Finland Rising (Sweden)
1596-1610 - Celali Revolts (Ottoman Empire)
1597 - Tax Rebellions (China)
1597 - Pancarte Resistance (France)
1597-Peasants Revolt (Hungary, Austrian Monarchy)
1598-1613-Time of Troubles (Russia)
1603-1608 - 'The Great Flight' (Ottoman Empire)
1606-1607 - Bolotnikov Rebellion (Russia)
1610 - Great Contract (Great Britain)
1620 ff. - Stock-and-Land Tax Conflict (Sweden)
1622 - Little Toll (Sweden)
1624 - Poitiers Riot (France)
1626 - Peasants Uprising (Austria)
1626 ff. - Catalonia Rebellion (Spanish Kingdom)
1628 - Petition of Right (Great Britain)
1630 - Lanturelu Rising (France)
1630 - Cascaveoux Revolt (France)
1631-1632 - Vizcaya Revolt (Spain)
1634-39 - Ship Writs Protest (Great Britain)
1635 - Agen Rising (France)
1635-43 - Saintonge/Angoumois Rebellions (France)
1636-1637 - Croquants Revolt (France)
1637 - Evora Riots (Portugal)
1638 ff. - Pardiac Revolts (France)
1639-43 - Va-nu-Pieds Revolt (France)
1640s - Excise Riots (England)
1643 - Excise and New Impost Protests (Great Britain)
1643 - Tax Risings (France)
1645 - Montpellier Revolt (France)
1645 - Cordoba Tax Resistance (Spain)
1647 - Palermo Revolt (Sicily, Spanish Kingdom)
1647-1648 - Naples Revolt (Italy, Spanish Kingdom)
1648 - Customs Protest (Ottoman Empire)
1648 - Moscow Uprising (Russia)
1648-1653 - Fronde of the Parlement (France)
1653 - Swiss Peasant War (Switzerland)
1659 ff. - Indigo Tax Evasion (Guatemala)
1662 - Kolomenskoe Protest (Russia)
1662 - Lustucru War (France)
1663 - Chalosse Rising (France)
1670 - Aubenas Revolt (France)
1670s - Peasant Revolt (France)
1675 - Bonnets Rouge Revolt (France)
1676 - Bacon's Rebellion (American Colonies, Great Britain)
1683 - Repartimiento Protest (Guatemala)
1689 - Hearth Tax (Hearth-Money) Repeal (Great Britain)

Eighteenth Century

1700 - Camisard Revolt (France)
1703 - Rakoczi's Insurrection (Hungary, Austrian Empire)
1707-08 - Lower Don Rebellion (Russia)
1712 - Mosquito Coast Rebellion (Central America)
1713 - Tax Rejection (Sweden)
1717 - Fukuyama Rising (Japan)
1726-1727 - Sanchu ikki (Japan)
1729 - Piche Settlement (Guatemala)
1733 - Excise Bill Riots (Great Britain)
1736 - Gin Act Protests (Great Britain)
1736 - Porteous Riots (Great Britain)
1739 - Iwaki Daira Rising (Japan)
1749 - Aizu Rising (Japan)
1749-1751 - Vingtieme Opposition (France)
1752 - Fukuyama Rising (Japan)
1761 - Canek Revolt (Yucatan)
1761-1763 - Ueda Horeki Rising (Japan)
1762 ff. - War of the Strilars (Norway)
1763 - Cider Act Protests (Great Britain)
1763 ff. - Bourbon Fiscal Reform Resistance (Guatemala)
1764-1765 - Tenma Sodo (Japan)
1764-75 - American Revolution (American Colonies, Great Britain)
1765 - Strilekrigen (Norway)
1765 - Rebellion of the Barrios (Ecuador)
1765 - Stamp Act Crisis and Stamp Act Congress (American Colonies, Great Britain)
1765-71 - Regulators (American Colonies, Great Britain)
1767 - Guanajuato Riot (Mexico)
1767 - Silesia Revolt (Austrian Monarchy)
1770 - Fukuyama Rising (Japan)
1773 - Palermo Revolt (Sicily, Italy)
1773-1774 - Boston Tea Party (Massachusetts Colony, Great Britain)
1773-75 - Pugachev Revolt (Russia)
1774 - Cochabamba Customs House Riot (Bolivia)
1775 - Peasants Rebellion (Bohemia, Austrian Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire)
1776 - Koyasan Revolt (Japan)
1780 - Arequipa Rebellion (Peru)
1780 - Katarista Rebellion (Bolivia)
1780 - La Paz Uprising (Bolivia)
1780-81 - Tupac Amaru Revolution (Peru)
1781 - Comunero Rebellion (Colombia)
1781 - Silk Tax Rising (Japan)
1782 - Carriage Tax Revolt (Sicily)
1783 ff. - Pennsylvania Whiskey Excise Protests (United States)
1784 - Nobles' Tax Opposition (Austrian Empire)
1784 - Horia and Closca Revolt (Transylvania, Austrian Monarchy)
1786 - Shays's Rebellion (United States)
1786-1787 - Tenmei Rising (Japan)
1786-1787 - Lofthuus's Revolt (Norway)
1788-89 - Minas Gerais Conspiracy (Brazil)
1789-1802 - French Revolution (France)
1790 - Decree Repeal Uprising (Austria)
1790 - Saxony Peasants' Revolt (Electorate of Saxony, Germany)
1790 - Fishermen's Revolt (Japan)
1793 ff. - White Lotus Rebellion (China)
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion (United States)
1794 - Pazvantoglu Rebellion (Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire)
1795 - Denbigh Protest (Wales)
1799 - Fries Rebellion (United States)

Nineteenth Century

1800 - St. Clears Tax Riot (Wales, Great Britain)
1802 - Parliament's Expunging Tax Roles (Great Britain)
1802-07 - Zempoala Tax Resistance (Mexico)
1806 - Llannon Riot (Wales, Great Britain)
1810 - Nobles' Tax Rebellion (Sicily)
1810 ff. - Nobles' Tax Reform Opposition (Prussia)
1811-1812 - Takeda Rising (Japan)
1814 - Echigo Rising (Japan)
1828 - Nobles' Tax Opposition (Russia)
1815-20 - Totonicapan Anti-tribute Uprising (Guatemala)
1816 - Commons Abolition of the Income Tax (Great Britain)
1822 - Cachoeira Uprising (Brazil)
1825 - Tumenggung Mohamad Revolt (Indonesia)
1826 - Homs Revolt (Syria)
1826 ff. - Hama Protest (Syria)
1831 - Damascus Revolt (Syria)
1831-1840 - Ferde Tax Opposition (Syria and Palestine)
1831-32 - Carmarthen Riots (Wales)
1833 - 'Awayid Abolition (Syria)
1834 - Fellah Revolt (Palestine, Ottoman Empire)
1835-1837 - Peasant Risings (Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire)
1838 - Carrera Revolt (Guatemala)
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League (Great Britain)
1839-42 - Rebecca Riots (Wales)
1840s ff. - Tax Resistance Movements (China)
1841 - Druze Tax Resistance (Syria)
1841 - Anatolian Tax Resistance (Turkey, Ottoman Empire)
1842 - Ch'ung-yang Uprising (China)
1842 - Zhaowen County Uprising (China)
1845 - Tjikandi Affair (Indonesia)
1847 ff. - Battle of the Malt Tax (Great Britain)
1847-50 - Sierra Gorda Rebellion (Mexico)
1848 - Revolution of 1848 (Sicily)
1850 - Aleppo Revolt (Syria)
1850 - Peasant Rising (Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire)
1851 - Census Rebellion (Brazil)
1851 - Grape Growers Strike (Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire)
1853 - Nambu Rising (Japan)
1853 - Qingpu Resistance (China)
1854 - 'Alawis Revolt (Syria)
1855-1856 - Bedel Opposition (Syria)
1860 ff. - Shantung Tax Resistance (China)
1860 - Damascus Riots (Syria)
1860s - Zemstvo Tax Protest (Russia)
1866 - 1867-Kaisei Rising (Japan)
1871 - Match Girls (Great Britain)
1872 - Land and Labour League (Great Britain)
1874-1875 - Peasants Revolt (Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire)
1879 ff. - Single Tax Movement (United States)
1880 - Vintem Riot (Brazil)
1880s - Salt Tax Uprisings (Egypt)
1884 - Chichibu Rising (Japan)
1888 - Banten Revolt (Indonesia)
1891 ff. - Anti-tax Riots (Italy)
1894 - Sicily Rebellion (Italy)
1895 - Income Tax Opposition (France)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

1900 ff. - Acre War (Bolivia)
1900 ff. - Free Conservatives (Denmark)
1901-1905, and ff. - Peasant Antitax Risings (China)
1906 - Bambatha Rebellion (Natal, South Africa)
1907 - Winegrowers' Strike (France)
1908 - Dai Loc Tax Revolt (Viet Nam)
1911 - Waichow Revolution (China)
1916 - Two Kitchen Knives Rebellion (China)
1918 - Opium Surtax Resistance (China)
1919 ff. - Georgists (Danmarks Retsforbund) (Denmark)
1920s - Tax Boycotts (Burma)
1921 - Guntur No-tax Campaign (India)
1923 ff. - Red Spears' Tax Risings (China)
1925 ff. - Opium Tax Protests (China)
1930 - Nghe An Revolt (Vietnam)
1930 ff. - Great Depression Tax Resistance (United States)
1931-1932 - Ch'ang-le Revolt (China)
1932 - Chiang-tu hsien Disturbances (China)
1934 - Taxi Drivers' Strike (France)
1937-1939 - Damodar Canal Tax Movement (India)
1943 - Tigrai Rebellion (Ethiopia)
1949 - Tax Law Opposition (Japan)
1953 ff. - Poujadisme (France)
1960s - Barwick Court (Australia)
1963-1970 - Bale Rebellion (Ethiopia)
1964 - Latifundists' Tax Resistance (Portugal)
1968 - Gojjam Revolt (Ethiopia)
1969 - Antiwar Tax Rally (United States)
1970 - Scarsdale Property Tax Rejection (United States)
1978 - Proposition 13 (United States)
1990 - Poll Tax Riots (Great Britain)
1995 ff. - Taxpayer Protection Act (Canada)
1999 - Gasoline Tax Protests (Jamaica)
2000 ff. - DC Vote (United States)
2000 - Fuel Tax Protests (Europe)
2000 - Banana Tax Protest (People's Republic of China)
2001 - Separatists' Movement (Canada)
2001 - Tennessee Income Tax Protest (United States)
2002 - Restaurateurs Strike (France)
2002 - Tax Opposition (Ascension Island)

Biographies

Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676) (United States)
Baez, Joan (1941- )
Ball, John ( -1381) (Great Britain)
Bassingbourne, Sir Stephen (Great Britain)
Boadicea (Boudicca or Boudica) (d. 60 A.D.) (Britain)
Bolotnikov, Ivan Isaevich ( -1607, Russia)
Boniface VIII ( -1303, Italy)
Charles the Bad (Charles II of Navarre) (1332-1387, France)
Cobden, Richard (1804-1865, Great Britain)
Cruz, Francisco de la ( -1578, Peru)
Flavius Sabinus ( ,Rome)
Fries, John (1750-1825, United States)
George, Henry (1839-1897, United States)
Germanus (c. 378-448, Gaul)
Hampden, John (c. 1595-1643, England)
d'Harcourt, Godefroy ( -1356, France)
Jarvis, Howard (1903-1986, United States)
Kellems, Vivien (1896-1975, United States)
Lee, J. (Joseph) Bracken (1899-1996, United States)
Philip IV (Philip the Fair) (1268-1314, France)
Shays, Daniel (1747-1825, United States)
Tupac Amaru (1747-1781, Peru)
Tyler, Wat (Walter Tyler, -June 15, 1281, England)

Appendix: Entry by Nation
Bibliography
Index

Contents:
Part One: A General Picture of European Tax Systems and the Main Topics in Tax Reforms 1. A Comparative View of Selected European Countries Luca Gandullia 2. Rationale and Open Issues of more Radical Reforms Luigi Bernardi 3. Public Finance and Political Economies in Tax Design and Reforms Paola Profeta 4. Reducing Fiscal Pressure Under the Stability Pact Fedele De Novellis and Salvatore Parlato Part Two: National Case Studies of European Tax Systems and Tax Reforms Luca Gandullia Co-Editor 5. France Simona Scabrosetti 6. Germany Giorgia C. Maffini 7. Ireland Alessandro Sommacal 8. Italy Luigi Bernardi 9. Spain Davide Tondani 10. The Netherlands Graziano Abrate 11. The United Kingdom Giuseppe Migali