In the past three decades, scholars of welfare policy in the United States have come to recognize tax privileges as an important part of the US social policy regime. A tax privilege is a provision of law or customary practice that grants favorable treatment to particular activities or categories...

In the past three decades, scholars of welfare policy in the United States have come to recognize tax privileges as an important part of the US social policy regime. A tax privilege is a provision of law or customary practice that grants favorable treatment to particular activities or categories...

Scholars have long recognized the importance of taxation to the study of modern society. In recent decades, a new and innovative wave of multidisciplinary scholarship on the sources and consequences of taxation has begun to emerge. In this introductory chapter, we chronicle the historical roots,...

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