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A fine mess : a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system / T.R. Reid.
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Reid, T. R.
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HJ2361 .R45 2017
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Taxation
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United States
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Income tax
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United States
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Taxation
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Law and legislation
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Income tax
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Summary note
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point-- in fact, we reach one every thirty-two years. T.R. Reid crisscrosses the globe in search of exact solutions to the urgent tax problems of the United States. With an uncanny knack for making a complex subjects not just accessible but gripping, he investigates what makes good taxation (no, that's not an oxymoron) and brings that knowledge home where it is needed most. Reid presses the case for sensible root-and-branch reforms that will affect everyone. Doing our taxes will never be America's favorite pastime, but it can and should be so much easier and fairer. -- Adapted from dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Contents
Every thirty-two years
Policy laboratories
"Low effort, low collection"
Taxes : what are they good for?
BBLR
Scooping water with a sieve
Flat broke
The defining problem; the taxing solution
Convoluted and pernicious strategies
The single tax, the fat tax, the tiny tax, the carbon tax-- and no tax at all
The Panama papers : sunny places for shady money
Simplify, simplify
The money machine
The Internal Revenue Code of 2018.
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ISBN
9781594205514 ((hardback))
1594205515 ((hardback))
LCCN
2017301115
OCLC
959037284
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