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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.

Receive complimentary lifetime digital access to the eBook with new print purchase. This convenient selection of federal taxation statutes and regulations is designed to provide up-to-date information, through May 2021, for students and professors alike. It includes edited provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), Treasury regulations, and various materials prepared by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A staple text in law schools, this informed volume is relied upon for its consistent format and extensive coverage. Detailed sections on the Internal Revenue title and Treasury regulations discuss income taxes, estate and gift taxes, employment taxes, miscellaneous excise taxes, procedure and administration, and the generation-skipping transfer tax. Detailed appendixes and a topical index are also included. The new volume contains all relevant statutory changes made since May 2020, including the changes made by the Covid and Taxpayer Certainty Acts (Pub. L. No. 116-260), and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2). IRS regulations are updated and the inflation-adjusted items for 2021 are included (Revenue Procedure 2020-45, Notice 2020-79, and Notice 2021-02).

This work is a visual representation of federal income tax law, showing in a single graphic both the overall system and the relationships between its component parts. Unlike conventional materials, it distills hierarchies, threshold questions, logical sequences, and context into one transparent and comprehensive picture, synthesizing the many cross-references present in the Internal Revenue Code.

Vol. 3 also issed as rev. 3rd ed. ; rev. 3rd edition of other vols. not planned.

This work is a visual representation of federal income tax law, showing in a single graphic both the overall system and the relationships between its component parts. Unlike conventional materials, it distills hierarchies, threshold questions, logical sequences, and context into one transparent and comprehensive picture, synthesizing the many cross-references present in the Internal Revenue Code.