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Daylight robbery : how tax shaped our past and will change our future / Dominic Frisby.
Lippincott Library HJ2250 .F75 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frisby, Dominic, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taxation--History.
- Taxation.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Penguin Business, 2019.
- Summary:
- For most people, tax is something we pay, simply because we must. We seldom think much more about it, in fact, tax is something we'd rather forget.But the reality is that tax is the key to power. No government can survive without tax revenue - it is the fuel that every state, large and small, runs on. Many of the problems we face today, not least the enormous wealth gaps between rich and poor and between generations, can be traced back to our systems of tax. If you tax windows, many will sacrifice their daylight. If you tax cigarettes, some people will choose not to smoke, others will take up smuggling. Tax companies too much and many will relocate off-shore.In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby will offer an alternate vision of a system that is as old as civilization itself.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Daylight Robbery
- ch. 2 How an Extraordinary Situation Could Offer an Extraordinary Solution
- ch. 3 Why Tax?
- ch. 4 The Cradle of Taxation
- ch. 5 Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and Tax
- ch. 6 The Greatest Constitutional Document of All Time
- ch. 7 How the Black Death Changed the Tax Structure of Europe
- ch. 8 How Taxes Gave Us the Modern Nation States We Know Today
- ch. 9 War, Debt, Inflation, Famine - and Income Tax
- ch. 10 The Real Reason for the US Civil War
- ch. 11 The Birth of Big Government
- ch. 12 The Second World War, the US and the Nazis
- ch. 13 The Evolution of Social Democracy
- ch. 14 The Unofficial Taxes: Debt and Inflation
- ch. 15 The Future of Work
- ch. 16 Crypto Money: The Taxman's Nightmare
- ch. 17 Digital Breaks Free
- ch. 18 Data: The Taxman's New Friend
- ch. 19 The System is Broken
- ch. 20 Designing Utopia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0241360838
- 9780241360835
- 9780241360866
- 0241360862
- OCLC:
- 1084409323
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