A Fair Share of Tax : A Fiscal Anthropology of Contemporary Sweden.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Björklund Larsen, Lotta.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • About the Book
  • Chapter 1: Exchanges Create Relations
  • Defining Taxation
  • Reciprocity
  • Why Sweden?
  • Understanding the Relationship between Society and Tax
  • Fieldwork: Ethnography of Swedes' Views on Taxation
  • Research on Why We Pay Tax
  • Anthropology of Economic Exchanges and Reciprocity
  • Reciprocity Proliferating
  • To See Tax as a Gift-Or?
  • Conclusion
  • Literature
  • Chapter 2: Taxpayers' Relation to Their State
  • Taxes in Terms of Reciprocity Cannot Be Measured
  • The Agency's View on Why Taxpayers Comply
  • Fairness in Tax Collection
  • Who Is the Taxpayer?
  • A Contemporary View of Taxpayers at the Agency
  • Getting Value for 'Tax' Money
  • Unfairly Treated by Society
  • Balancing a Fair Deal with the State
  • Conclusion
  • Literature
  • Chapter 3: Taxpayer to Taxpayer Relation
  • The Agency's View
  • Barter
  • Taxpayer Views on Barter
  • Business and Private Life
  • An Example: Horse Trotting
  • Business and Private Life Continued
  • Informalizing the Formal
  • Formalizing the Informal: Share Economy
  • Conclusion
  • Literature
  • Chapter 4: Tensions between Paying and Receiving
  • Being Magister
  • Progressive Marginal Tax
  • Pillars of Society
  • Balance Artists
  • Contributive and Distributive Balancing
  • Not Paying for Those Who Do Not Pay
  • A Fair Society
  • Conclusion
  • Literature
  • Chapter 5: Making Tax Compliant
  • Taxation Is a Total Social Phenomenon
  • Balance Outstanding
  • Fair Share-All Need to Contribute
  • Literature
  • Index.