8,000 Years of Weird and Wonderful Taxes Contributor(s): Gleeson, Darren (Author) |
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ISBN: 1922409448 ISBN-13: 9781922409447 Publisher: Vivid Publishing OUR PRICE: $16.91 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | International - Taxation - Business & Economics | Taxation - General - Law | Taxation |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.64 lbs) 194 pages |
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Publisher Description: 8,000 Years of Weird and Wonderful Taxes takes a journey through history as we shed light on unusual and different taxes through the ages. We start with the beginning of taxation in 6,000 BC with the Bala tax and move through to the current day Social media taxes. Governments levy taxes for two reasons, to raise revenue to fund their spending or change citizens behaviours (by either rewarding or punishing the behaviours they want to change). We look at the effect on society of the 420 BC - Sex tax, 870 - Breast tax, 1535 - Beard tax and the 1807 - Killing of squirrels tax, to name a few. |