"Can a book about tax history be a page-turner? You wouldn't think so. But Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero, J.S. Woodsworth, who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising of all, it reveals...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables and Appendices -- ONE. Introduction -- PART I. THE CONTEXT OF CANADA'S TAX SYSTEM -- TWO. The Tax System and the Politics of Ideas -- THREE. The Tax System as Economic Constitution -- FOUR. The Tax Policy Community: Institutions and...