12. The Right to Autonomy as a Moral Foundation for the Realization Principle in Income TaxationIndex
Cover; Philosophical Foundations of Tax Law; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction to Philosophical Foundations of Tax Law; PART I JUSTIFICATION FOR TAX AND ENFORCEMENT; 1. The 'Sinews of the State': Historical Justifications for Taxes and Tax Law; 2. Must We Pay for the British Museum? Taxation and the Harm Principle; 3. Tax Evasion as Crime; 4. Kelsen, the Principle of Exclusion of Contradictions, and General Anti-Avoidance Rules in Tax Law; PART II DESIGN AND MECHANICS OF THE TAX SYSTEM: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
5. Michael Oakeshott and the Conservative Disposition in Tax Law6. The Justice of the Tax Base and the Case for Income Tax; 7. Tax Policy and the Virtuous Sovereign: Dworkinian Equality and Redistributive Taxation; PART III DESIGN AND MECHANICS OF THE TAX SYSTEM: WEALTH AND PROPERTY; 8. A Forced Labour Theory of Property and Taxation; 9. The Philosophical Foundations of Wealth Transfer Taxation; 10. Talents, Types, and Tags: What Is the Relevance of the Endowment Tax Debate?; 11. How Is the Opera Like a Soup Kitchen?
This collection brings together major themes and difficult questions in the philosophical foundations of tax law. It allows the reader to consider how tax systems should move forward in the modern world, with a sound philosophical basis, to provide the practical tax system that the state requires and citizens deserve.
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