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 …

An empirical finding by Gaspar, Jaramillo and Wingender (2016) shows that once countries cross a tax-to-GDP threshold … this paper, we attempt via four case studies-Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria-to illustrate that the improvements in tax … capacity have been part of a deeper process of state capacity building. We discuss the political conditions that supported tax …

the Mughals.-Taxation in Early British Period.-Taxation in Pre-independence Period—The Salt Tax -- Part II: Theory of … Taxation: Principles of Taxation -- Market Behaviour of Consumers and Producers -- Introduction of a Tax in the Market … -- Incidence of a Tax -- Equity Effects of Taxation -- Tax and Stabilisation of the Economy -- Part III: Tax Law: Tax Assignment …