Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread
phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from
antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times.
Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance shows how
different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or
failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash,
on their properties or on their crops. It analyses how, throughout
history, wealthy and poor taxpayers have tried to avoid or reduce
their tax burden by negotiating with tax authorities, through
practices of legal or illegal tax evasion, by filing lawsuits,
seeking armed resistance or by migration, and how state authorities
have dealt with such acts of claim making, defiance, open
resistance or elusion. It fills an important research gap in tax
history, addressing questions of tax morale and fairness, and how
social and political inequality was negotiated through taxation. It
gives rich insights into the development of citizen-state
relationships throughout the course of history. The book comprises
case studies from Ancient Athens, Roman Egypt, Medieval Europe,
Early Modern Mexico, the Ottoman Empire, Nigeria under British
colonial rule, the United Kingdom of the early 20th century, Greece
during the Second World War, as well as West Germany, Switzerland,
Sweden and the United States in the 20th century, including
transnational entanglements in the world of late-modern offshore
finance and taxation. The authors are experts in fiscal, economic,
financial, legal, social and/or cultural history. The book is
intended for students, researchers and scholars of economic and
financial history, social and world history and political economy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license.
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