Overview
- Offers a panoramic history of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and tax havens from the 19th century to the present
- Discusses the notion of the 'tax haven' and proposes a more rigorous concept - that of the 'tax predator'
- Draws from unpublished data and long statistical series, including contributions from specialists around the world
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About this book
This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history. It aims to show that this phenomenon is at the heart of global capitalism, partly as a response of the ruling classes to the rise of progressive taxation, but for other reasons too: notably the development of a powerful tax evasion and avoidance industry in different countries. The book argues that tax competition between states has stimulated the development of tax havens. It discusses the notion of the‘tax haven’ and proposes a more rigorous concept - that of the‘tax predator’. Finally, the book sheds light on the socio-political conflicts that have developed around tax evasion and the way in which states have fought against or tolerated the phenomenon.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Emergence and Expansion of Tax Havens
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Tax Evasion: Extent, Causes, and Conflicts
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Fighting Tax Evasion and Tax Havens?
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sébastien Guex is Full Professor of History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests lie in social, economic and political history, and he has studied public finance, taxes, and tax havens - in particular the Swiss tax haven. He is a member of the federal commission in charge of the publication of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland series. Finally, he is one of the founders, in 2002, of one of the most influential NGOs on tax policy at the international level, the Tax Justice Network (TJN).
Hadrien Buclin is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was also, in 2017-2019, a visiting research fellow at Paris 1 University. His research focuses on the social and political history of Switzerland in the twentieth century. He is the author of Les intellectuels de gauche: critique et consensus dans la Suisse d’après-guerre (1945-1968) (2019), as well as several scientific papers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tax Evasion and Tax Havens since the Nineteenth Century
Editors: Sébastien Guex, Hadrien Buclin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18119-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18118-4Published: 19 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18121-4Published: 19 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18119-1Published: 18 April 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 387
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: European History, Financial History, Legal History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Political History