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Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue - Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages (Hardcover)
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Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue - Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages (Hardcover)
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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 ages 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
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.
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