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003			OCoLC
005			20211118112549.0
008			200924t20212021njua b 001 0 eng d
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035			_a(OCoLC)1197574129
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050		4	_aHJ2250 _b.K44 2021
082	0	4	_a336.2009 _223
100	1		_aKeen, Michael,
245	1	0	_aRebellion, rascals and revenue : _btax follies and wisdom through the ages / _cMichael Keen, Joel Slemrod.
246	1		_iAt head of title on cover: _aPrinceton University Press presents.
264		1	_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_�2021.
300			_axx, 511 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aGovernments 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.
650		0	_aTaxation _xHistory.
650		0	_aTaxation _vMiscellanea.
700	1		_aSlemrod, Joel,
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