state?: on the evolution of Japanese tax policy / Eisaku Ide, Sven Steinmo -- War and taxation: when does patriotism …. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad -- "The unfair advantage of the few": the New Deal origins of "soak the rich" taxation / Joseph J …. Thorndike -- What Americans think of taxes / Andrea Louise Campbell -- Read their lips: taxation and the right-wing agenda …

The financial crisis has opened up a global debate on the taxation of the financial sector. A number of international … policy initiatives, most notably by the G20, have called for major changes in the tax treatment of financial institutions and … transactions as well as individuals working in the financial sector. This book examines how tax policies contributed to the …