Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

Rebellion, Rascals, and RevenueAuthor: Michael Keen ISBN: 9780691199542 Publisher: Princeton University Press Year first published: 15 Jun 2021 Pages: 536 Format: Hardback Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed

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