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This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the provision of public goods and public services, to engage in direct or indirect forms of redistribution, and to mould the behaviour of individual citizens. As the contributors to this volume show, there are a number of pressing and thorny philosophical issues relating to the tax system, and these issues often connect in fascinating ways with foundational questions regarding property rights, public justification, democracy, state neutrality, stability, political psychology, and other moral and political issues. Many of these deep and fascinating philosophical questions about tax have not received as much sustained attention as they clearly merit.
The aim of advancing the debate about tax in political philosophy has both general and more specific aspects, ranging across both over-arching issues regarding the tax system as a whole and more specific issues relating to particular forms of tax policy. Thinking clearly about tax is not an easy task, as much that is of central importance is missed if one proceeds at too great a level of abstraction, and issues of conceptual and normative importance often only come sharply into focus when viewed against real-world questions of implementation and feasibility. Serious philosophical work on the tax system will often therefore need to be interdisciplinary, and so the discussion in this book includes a number of scholars whose expertise spans across neighbouring disciplines to philosophy, including political science, economics, public policy, and law.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Part I. On the Tax System: Normative and Conceptual Questions
- 1: Alan Hamlin: What Political Philosophy Should Learn from Economics about Taxation
- 2: Marc Fleurbaey: Welfarism, Libertarianism, and Fairness in the Economic Approach to Taxation
- 3: Geoffrey Brennan: Striving for the Middle Ground: Taxation, Justice and the Status of Private Rights
- 4: Laura Biron: Taxing or Taking: Property Rhetoric and the Justice of Taxation
- 5: Peter Vallentyne: Libertarianism and Taxation
- 6: Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden: Tax Policy and Fair Inequality
- 7: Véronique Munoz-Dardé and M. G. F. Martin: Beggar Your Neighbour (Or Why You Do Want to Pay Your Taxes)
- Part II. Tax Policy and Forms of Taxation: Philosophical Issues
- 8: Barbara Fried: The Case for a Progressive Benefits Tax
- 9: Stuart White: Moral Objections to Inheritance Tax
- 10: Iain McLean: The Politics of Land Value Taxation
- 11: Peter Dietsch: The State and Tax Competition: a Normative Perspective
- 12: Gillian Brock and Rachel McMaster: Global Taxation and Accounting Arrangements: Some Normatively Desirable and Feasible Policy Recommendations
Info autore
Martin O'Neill is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York. He is co-editor (with Thad Williamson) of
Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Shepley Orr is Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering in the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, and an affiliate member of the UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health.
Riassunto
This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. Given that the tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens, more interdisciplinary attention to conceptual and normative issues relating to tax is urgently needed.
Testo aggiuntivo
With this remarkable collection of 12 essays and a concise introduction, we now have a philosophical literature on the topic. Naturally, there are still some unanswered questions, but the progress is notable... It is very well organized, and the essays complete each other, even when opposing views are put forward. This book could serve as essential reading in undergraduate and master's level courses in political philosophy, philosophy of economics and PPE.
Relazione
When I designed my course on Iarkets and Morals, at Yale in 2017, I wanted a reflection on the normative value of market outputs to figure prominently. This, of course, would require a range of philosophical acounts of taxation. To my suprise...little was written on the topic...Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives quenched my thirst. With this remarkable cllection f 12 essays and a concise introduction, we now have a philosophical literature on the topic. Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh, Université Laval: Quebec, Economics & Philosophy
