1st Edition
Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Ability and Intention of Not Paying Taxes in History: Some Introductory Observations
Korinna Schönhärl, Gisela Hürlimann, Dorothea Rohde
Part 1: Negotiating Lower Taxes, or No Taxes at All
Chap. 1: Tax Evaders in Classical Athens? Attacks and Strategies of Defence in Attic Oratory
Lucia Cecchet
Chap. 2: The Alcabala Sales Tax Administration in Colonial Mexico: Avoidance Strategies in Bourbon Colonial Mexico (1723-1754)
Rodrigo Gordoa de la Huerta
Chap. 3: Imperial Taxation and Local Agency: Tax Avoidance and Tax Resistance in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany (Saxony and Thuringia)
Rachel Renault
Part 2: Resisting and Opposing Taxes
Chap. 4: Not Paying Taxes in Roman Egypt
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
Chap. 5: "Taxing" the Tribes in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Tribes of Mutki (1839-1908)
Yener Koç
Chap. 6: Tax Evasion as Means of Resistance in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944
Vasilis G. Manousakis
Chap. 7: Women´s Protests against Colonial Taxation in the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria
Daniel Olisa Iweze
Part 3: Avoiding Tax Avoidance: Counter Strategies by State Authorities
Chap. 8: Verbally Resisting Taxes in Medieval England: Arguments, Anger and the (In)Ability to Prevent Tax-Avoidance in the Reign of Henry III
Christina Bröker
Chap. 9: How to Create a Taxpaying Spirit: A Transnational Examination of a US American and a Western German Tax Education Film in and after World War II
Korinna Schönhärl
Chap. 10: "Exceptional" Tax Amnesties: A Common Swiss Way of Fighting Tax Fraud in the Twentieth Century
Aniko Fehr, Sylvain Praz
Part 4: Sparing the Rich and Companies from Taxation
Chap. 11: "There is no wrongdoing in avoiding taxes." The Land Union’s Tax Resistance in Great Britain (1900–1930s)
Anna Grotegut
Chap. 12: Populist Ambivalence to Tax Evasion: The 1962 Campaign against Dividend and Interest Withholding in the US
Steven A. Bank
Chap. 13: "I am a professional tax evader". Multinationals, Business Groups and Tax Havens, 1950s to 1980s
Boris Gehlen, Christian Marx
Chap. 14: Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation? Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the Early 1970s
Thibaud Giddey, Mikael Wendschlag
Index
Biography
Korinna Schönhärl is the Heisenberg-Professor for Modern History at Paderborn University, Germany.
Gisela Hürlimann is professor of history of technology and economic history at the Technical University (TU) Dresden, Germany.
Dorothea Rohde is a lecturer of ancient history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
