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A Fair Share of Tax: A Fiscal Anthropology of Contemporary Sweden
This book takes a taxpayer's perspective to the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Larsen proposes that in order to understand tax compliance and cheating, we have to look beyond law, psychological experiments and surveys to include tax collectors and taxpayers' practices. The text explores the view of taxes seen as citizen’s explicit economic relation to the state and implicit economic relation to all other compatriots. Larsen suggests how to build and increase tax compliance if we take the idea of taxation creating reciprocal relations seriously.
The empirical cases are based on ethnography from two opposing tax practices in Sweden. Firstly, from a study of analysts, auditors, legal experts and managers at the Swedish Tax Agency and how they, quite successfully, strive for legitimacy in their tax collecting activities in society. Secondly, from fieldwork among a group of middle-aged Swedes and how they justify their tax-cheating when purchasing work off the books. Sweden is a modern society seen as particularly rational and the least prone to worry about survival issues; they trust their government and fellow citizens. Sweden is therefore an important country to look at as an example of tax compliance and whether other countries showing a continuous inclination towards these values will follow their lead.
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Keywords
- Behavioural economics
- Business & Economics
- Business & Economics / Taxation
- Contributive and distributive balancing
- Economic anthropology
- Economic exchanges and reciprocity
- Economics, finance, business & management
- ethnography
- Exchanges
- Finance
- Finance & accounting
- Fiscal anthropology
- Marcel Mauss
- Progressive marginal tax
- Public economics
- Public Finance
- quid-pro-quo exchange
- Reciprocity
- Swedish tax
- Swedish Tax Agency
- Tax as a gift
- Tax compliance
- Taxpayer
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industry::KFFD Public finance and taxation
- welfare
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69772-7web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-69772-7
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