Global taxation : how modern taxes conquered the world
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Global taxation : how modern taxes conquered the world
Oxford University Press, 2022
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Global Taxation investigates the global transition to modern taxation from the 18th century to today. Modern taxation refers to the broad-based tax instruments that allowed for the emergence of big government as we know it today, including, most prominently, income taxes and general consumption taxes. The volume draws on a new historical dataset of tax introduction worldwide to map the global spread of modern taxes descriptively and to explore its correlates
analytically. It makes four contributions to the literature. First, it corrects a pervasive Western bias in historical political economy and fiscal sociology. Most of this literature focuses heavily on the tax policy of advanced democracies in Europe. The chapters of this volume explore how far Western
theories and insights travel to non-Western contexts. Second, the volume mitigates a recency bias in much of the macro-quantitative literature in comparative political economy and public finance. The chapters investigate whether insights travel across time from recent to more distant periods of observation. Third, the volume compensates for the substantive preoccupation of extant research with the personal income tax and the VAT by extending the analysis to other important tax instruments: the
corporate income tax, the inheritance tax, non-VAT sales taxes, and social security contributions. Finally, the volume goes beyond the prevalent methodological nationalism in fiscal sociology and comparative political economy. It shows that non-sovereign tax introductions were common in colonial and
imperial settings and compares analytically how the logic of these non-sovereign introductions differed from sovereign ones.
Table of Contents
Preface
1: Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf: Global Pathways to Modern Taxation
Part I. Variance Across Space and Mode
2: Jakob Frizell: War and Modern Taxation
3: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg: Fiscal Development Under Colonial and Sovereign Rule
4: Klaus Schlichte: Trajectories of Taxation in Uganda and Senegal
5: Arpad Todor: The Historical Roots of Post-Communist Taxation
Part II. Variance Across Time and Tax
6: Junko Kato and Miki Toyofuku: Democratization and Tax Innovation
7: Andrea Papadia and Zbigniew Truchlewski: Recessions and Tax Introductions
8: Per F. Andersson: Political Institutions and Income Taxes
9: Joseph Ganderson and Julian Limberg: The Rise of General Consumption Taxes
10: Achim Kemmerling: Social Security Contributions and the Fiscal Origins of the Welfare State
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