Worlds of Taxation The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945 /
This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the turn to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
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| ISBN: | 9783319902630 |
| ISSN: | 2662-5164 |
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Table of Contents:
- The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction
- How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State
- How They All Came to Love the VAT: Consumption Taxes, Big Business, and the Welfare State in Sweden
- Working-Class Power and the Taxation of Current Earnings: Danish Pay-As-You-Earn in Comparative Perspective
- Universalism and Tax Consent in Denmark
- The Powerlessness of Employees in France: The Spread of Income Taxation, 1945-1980
- Tax Policy in the United States: Was There a "Neo-liberal" Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s?
- Tax Reformers' Ideas, the Expenditure-Taxation Nexus, and Comprehensive Tax Reform in the United States, 1961-1986
- The Rise and Fall of the Industrious State: Why Did Japan's Welfare State Differ from European-Style Models?
- A Reverse-Functioning System: Japan's Social Security System and Tax Progression in the Early Twenty-First Century
- A Fair Case for Tax Relief: Swiss Tax Policy, 1940s to 1960s
- Unfairness, Inequality, and Tax Evasion: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Tax Burden in Greece, 1955-1989
- Limits to Redistribution in Late Democratic Transitions: The Case of Spain.

