'A brief but crucially important book' Marcus Chown In The Joy of
Tax, tax campaigner Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you
have about tax. For him, tax is fundamentally about the ideas that
shape the sort of society we want to live in, not technicalities.
His intention is to demonstrate that there is indeed a joy in tax,
and by embracing it we can create a fairer society and change the
world for the better. Tax has been a feature of human society for a
very long time. Almost no one gives tax a good press even though,
as Richard Murphy argues, it has been fundamental to the
development of democracy the world over. Whilst we may not like tax
very much, in contrast it is clear that we really do like the
public services which governments provide. So much so, in fact,
that for most of the last 300 years, people have been more than
happy for governments to run deficits by spending more than they
raise in taxation. 2008 apparently changed all that. The issues of
debt, deficits, cuts and austerity have dominated the political
agenda ever since. Virtually every aspect of the government's
finances and how to rearrange them in the forlorn hope of balancing
the books has been discussed in great detail. Despite that, there
has been almost no real discussion during this period about what
tax is for and how it contributes to the creation of the society we
aspire to.
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