world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes … they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts-and, in … repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth …

state?: on the evolution of Japanese tax policy / Eisaku Ide, Sven Steinmo -- War and taxation: when does patriotism … American tax regimes / Robin L. Einhorn -- Extraction and democracy / Charles Tilly -- Improving tax administration in … contemporary African states: lessons from history / Edgar Kiser, Audrey Sacks -- Adam Smith and the search for an ideal tax system …

tax time. …"In daily life and in tax law, time is taken for granted as something that is ever present but beyond our control. Time … experience time travel or to see time used as a medium of exchange. As Tax and Time demonstrates through accessible explanation …