shadowed by a mother discipline. There is currently an unprecedented need to approach tax pedagogy in a way that is independent … of another discipline. This book caters to that real and unmet need in tax pedagogy. One of the book's advantages is that … it is not tied to a specific tax year and does not coddle the reader with volumes of time-sensitive information. In this …

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 …