Taxing Democracy: Understanding Tax Avoidance and Evasion by Valerie ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd

The integrity of tax systems are being challenged throughout the world. Tax avoidance schemes of various kinds are proving increasingly attractive and lucrative to wealthy individuals and large corporations, to the consternation of governments, who are trying to formulate their reaction. In this book, an international group of experts develop the idea of responsive regulation in relation to taxation. > The integrity of tax systems as we know them are being challenged throughout the world. Tax avoidance schemes of various kinds are proving increasingly attractive and lucrative to wealthy individuals and large corporations. As governments fear the erosion of their tax base among those who are most able to contribute, the public is looking on, as one of its most public institutions attempts to re-invent itself through changing laws and administrative procedures. In this book, a number of experts develop the idea of responsive regulation in relation to taxation. They demonstrate hw