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 …

economy in Summer 2006 which provides for a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of private decisions concerning tax … change their tax paying behaviour. Furthermore, the success and downsides of such strategies were examined. According to the … illegal tax paying practices, the subjective appraisal of operating in the hidden economy. Nevertheless, these factors can …