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A fine mess : a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system
Title:
A fine mess : a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system
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Books
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Publication Date(s):
2017
ISBN:
9781594205514
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Physical Description:
278 pages : illustrations, tables ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Prologue: Every thirty-two years -- Policy laboratories -- "Low effort, low colletion" -- Taxes: what are they good for? -- BBLR -- Scooping water with a sieve -- Flat broke -- The defining problem; the taxing solution -- Convoluted and pernicious strategies -- The single tax, the fat tax, the tiny tax, the carbon tax--and no tax at all -- The Panama papers: sunny places for shady money -- Simplify, simplify -- The money machine -- Epilogue: The Internal Revenue Code of 2018.
Summary:
Presents an international investigation into America's failing tax code to share plainspoken assessments of current problems and what can be learned from other democratic nations.
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