For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationMadison Books, 1999 - 541 páginas The very word taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. Charles Adams changes that in this newly revised and enlarged edition of his fascinating history. Taxation, says Adams, has been a catalyst of history, a powerful influence on and sometimes the direct cause of many of the famous events that have marched across the world's stage as empires collided and battled for the right to tax the loser. For Good and Evil is the first book to examine how taxation has been a key factor in world events. Like the Rosetta Stone - itself a tax document - the book sheds fresh light onto much of history. |
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... percent ; in the twentieth century the rates in just about every European country and the United States have risen to well above 50 percent to as high as 90 percent in peacetime - historically an old and common story . Today , you could ...
... percent ; in the twentieth century the rates in just about every European country and the United States have risen to well above 50 percent to as high as 90 percent in peacetime - historically an old and common story . Today , you could ...
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... percent for legacies to brothers and 6 percent for gifts to strangers . This tax only applied to bequests of personal property , not real property , thus it is sometimes called a legacy tax . Later , children were taxed at 1 percent as ...
... percent for legacies to brothers and 6 percent for gifts to strangers . This tax only applied to bequests of personal property , not real property , thus it is sometimes called a legacy tax . Later , children were taxed at 1 percent as ...
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... percent maximum , which was changed to 15 percent in 1916. In 1917 it jumped to 67 percent , then 77 percent . When these ultra high rates hit , high incomes quickly began to disappear , " as if by magic . " The Treasury reported 206 ...
... percent maximum , which was changed to 15 percent in 1916. In 1917 it jumped to 67 percent , then 77 percent . When these ultra high rates hit , high incomes quickly began to disappear , " as if by magic . " The Treasury reported 206 ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing ... Jeremy Rifkin Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |
The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing ... Jeremy Rifkin Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |
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| Título | For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization |
| Autor | Charles Adams |
| Edição | 2, ilustrada |
| Editora | Madison Books, 1999 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Ago 2007 |
| ISBN | 1568331231, 9781568331232 |
| Número de páginas | 541 páginas |
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