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02984aam a2200325 i 4500 001 9C523C94FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 200924t20212021njua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020948499 020 $a 9780691199542 020 $a 069119954X 035 $a (OCoLC)1197574129 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d CLE $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YEQ $d SILO 050 4 $a HJ2250 $b .K44 2021 100 1 $a Keen, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a Rebellion, rascals and revenue : $b tax follies and wisdom through the ages / $c Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod. 246 1 $i At head of title on cover: $a Princeton University Press presents 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xx, 511 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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."--Book jacket flap. 650 0 $a Taxation $x History. 650 0 $a Taxation $x Miscellanea. 650 7 $a Taxation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01143876 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Slemrod, Joel, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015353.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C523C94FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search