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

by Joel Slemrod and Michael Keen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069119954X
• ISBN13: 9780691199542
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"