Download or read book Global Debates About Taxation written by Holger Nehring and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current debates about taxes are dominated by references to foreign models. The contributors to this book explore how ideas about taxation were transferred between and within countries from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. They send out a word of caution to current policymakers looking for straightforward solutions from abroad.