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Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages

Hardcover • 2021 • English

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages

By Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780691199542

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages

Format

Hardcover

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