An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages

Since the introduction of the income tax in 1913, controversy has raged about how heavily to tax the rich. Opponents of high tax rates claim that heavy assessme

This book assembles nine papers on tax progressivity and its relationship to income inequality, written by leading public finance economists. The papers documen

Although estate and gift taxes raise a small fraction of federal revenues, they have become sources of increasing political controversy. This book is designed t