Research Catalog

Title

Histories of tax evasion, avoidance and resistance / edited by Korinna Schönhärl, Gisela Hürlimann and Dorothea Rohde.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schönhärl, Korinna
• Hürlimann, Gisela
• Rohde, Dorothea

Description

xiv, 266 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through to medieval, early modern and modern times. This book shows how different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash, on their properties, or on their crops. It analyses how, throughout history, wealthy and poor taxpayers have tried to avoid or reduce their tax burden by negotiating with tax authorities, through practices of legal or illegal tax evasion, by filing lawsuits, seeking armed resistance or by migration, and how state authorities have dealt with such acts of claim making, defiance, open resistance or elusion. It fills an important research gap in tax history, addressing questions of tax morale and fairness, and how social and political inequality was negotiated through taxation. It gives rich insights into the development of citizen-state relationships throughout the course of history. The book comprises case studies from Ancient Athens, Roman Egypt, Medieval Europe, Early Modern Mexico, the Ottoman Empire, Nigeria under British colonial rule, the United Kingdom of the early 20th century, Greece during the Second World War, as well as West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the US in the 20th century, including transnational entanglements in the world of late-modern offshore finance and taxation. The authors are experts in fiscal, economic, financial, legal, social, and/or cultural history. The book is intended for students, researchers and scholars of economic and financial history, social and world history and political economy"--

Series Statement

Financial history

Uniform Title

Financial history (London, England)

Subject

Tax evasion

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-1809

ISBN

• 9781032366739
• 1032366737
• 9781032366746
• 1032366745
• 9781003333197 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022035182

OCLC

1348391831

Title

Histories of tax evasion, avoidance and resistance / edited by Korinna Schönhärl, Gisela Hürlimann and Dorothea Rohde.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Financial history

Financial history (London, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Schönhärl, Korinna, editor.

Hürlimann, Gisela, editor.

Rohde, Dorothea, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Histories of tax evasion, avoidance and resistance 1. New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781003333197 (DLC) 2022035183

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1809