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This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens.
Philosophy books on taxation or public finance simply do not exist. The Philosophy of Taxation and Public Finance is different.
Justifying Taxes offers readers some of the elements of a democratic tax law, considered within its political and philosophical context in order to determine the extent of legitimate tax obligations.
The Myth of Ownership bridges this gap, offering the first book to explore tax policy from the standpoint of contemporary moral and political philosophy. Book jacket.
5 Lewis compares Rand, a Russian-born émigré,6 with Bellamy in terms of writing ability, classifying both as “competent.” Both utopians, Lewis asserts, “have presented proposals by means of a story that interests the reader largely ...
Building on a careful analysis of the ethical challenges raised by a world of tax competition, this book puts forward a normative and institutional framework to regulate the practice.
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Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, first published in 1817, is his major work.
This collection brings together major themes and difficult questions in the philosophical foundations of tax law.
This book asks why tax policy is both attracted to and repelled by the idea of justice.