Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel

by Assaf Likhovski

Book Overview

This book describes how a social-norms model of taxation rose and fell in British-ruled Palestine and the State of Israel in the mid-twentieth century. Such a model, in which non-legal means were used to foster compliance, appeared in the tax system created by the Jewish community in 1940s Palestine and was later adopted by the new Israeli state in the 1950s. It gradually disappeared in subsequent decades as law and its agents, lawyers and accountants,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316629430
• ISBN13: 9781316629437
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"