Tax planning and compliance Books
Octopus Publishing Group TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams
Book Synopsis'A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious exposé of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.' - Piers Morgan'Very funny (and furious)... By the end of the book you may be spluttering with rage at the injustice of it all. Page after page shows how the rich are exploiting loopholes to reduce their tax bill.... But this is not some crazed figure on the extreme left hoping to bring down the establishment. The book is written by an accountant who has spent his career coming up with the very tax avoidance schemes the super-wealthy use to evade the clutches of HMRC.' - The Telegraph'Funny, clever and really quite brilliant. Taxtopia will make you furiously angry and possibly even filthy rich.' - Tom Peck, The Independent'If you want to know how skewed the system is and how the rich always get richer and stay that way, while you don't, then read this book. Then get angry.' - Patrick Alley, Co-founder of Global Witness and author of Very Bad People'Taxtopia's anonymous author has done the impossible - created a hilarious and deeply troubling expose about how the world's shady tax system is exploited and proves what we always suspected - that our tax system is rigged against us. Read it and weep.' - Geraint Anderson author of City Boy'Would I recommend the book? For readers of Spear's, my answer is 'yes, and it may also be worth going back over some of the more interesting ideas with your accountant' -Spear's'The book is enormously readable ... I would very much recommend reading Taxtopia because it's the most hilarious book about tax I've ever read!' - Siân Pattenden, The BunkerIn TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear.In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world's biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the Duke of Westminster often pay less tax than you do.Written with sharp wit and over-brimming with inside secrets, the anonymous author shows us that not only does the global tax system encourage dubious practice which favours the rich, but that it was specifically founded with that in mind.If you suspect that tax is a rigged game, a con, designed to fleece the little guy, you are about to find out just how shockingly true that really is.Welcome to TAXTOPIA.Trade ReviewI would never ever have believed that a book about accountants could be either compelling or funny but Taxtopia manages both, it is a terrifying and brilliant book. Packed with true stories, many of them hilarious, the Rebel Accountant takes the reader deep inside the accountancy profession's often immoral banality. If you want to know how skewed the system is and how the rich always get richer and stay that way, while you don't, then read this book. Then get angry. -- Patrick Alley, Co-founder of Global Witness and author of Very Bad PeopleTaxtopia's anonymous author has done the impossible - created a hilarious and deeply troubling expose about how the world's shady tax system is exploited and proves what we always suspected - that our tax system is rigged against us. Read it and weep. -- Geraint Anderson author of CITY BOYA shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious exposé of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys. -- Piers MorganVery funny (and furious)... By the end of the book you may be spluttering with rage at the injustice of it all. Page after page shows how the rich are exploiting loopholes to reduce their tax bill.... But this is not some crazed figure on the extreme left hoping to bring down the establishment. The book is written by an accountant who has spent his career coming up with the very tax avoidance schemes the super-wealthy use to evade the clutches of HMRC. * The Telegraph *Would I recommend the book? For readers of Spear's, my answer is 'yes, and it may also be worth going back over some of the more interesting ideas with your accountant * Spear’s *The book is enormously readable ... I would very much recommend reading Taxtopia because it's the most hilarious book about tax I've ever read! * Siân Pattenden, The Bunker *
£17.00
Berghahn Books Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of
Book Synopsis Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems, using tax to explore the nature of citizenship, personal freedom, and moral and economic value. Their ethnographically grounded accounts show how taxation may be influenced by spaces of fiscal sovereignty that exist outside or alongside the state, taking various forms, from alternative religious communities to economic collectives.Table of Contents Introduction: Tax Beyond the Social Contract Nicolette Makovicky and Robin Smith Chapter 1. Taxes for Independence: Rejecting a Fiscal Model of Reciprocity in Peri-urban Bolivia Miranda Sheild Johansson Chapter 2. God's Delivery State: Taxes, Tithes, and a Rightful Return in Urban Ghana Anna-Riikka Kauppinen Chapter 3. The Fiscal Commons: Tax Evasion, the State, and Commoning in a Catalonian Cooperative Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar Chapter 4. Contesting the Social Contract: Tax Reform and Economic Governance in Istria, Croatia Robin Smith Chapter 5. Into and Out of Citizenship, through Personal Tax Payments: Romanian Migrants’ Leveraging of British Self-Employment Dora-Olivia Vicol Chapter 6. The Worth of the ‘While’: Time and Taxes in a Finnish Timebank Matti Eräsaari Afterword: Putting Together the Anthropology of Tax and the Anthropology of Ethics Soumhya Venkatesan Index
£85.60
Berghahn Books Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of
Book Synopsis Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems, using tax to explore the nature of citizenship, personal freedom, and moral and economic value. Their ethnographically grounded accounts show how taxation may be influenced by spaces of fiscal sovereignty that exist outside or alongside the state, taking various forms, from alternative religious communities to economic collectives.Table of Contents Introduction: Tax Beyond the Social Contract Nicolette Makovicky and Robin Smith Chapter 1. Taxes for Independence: Rejecting a Fiscal Model of Reciprocity in Peri-urban Bolivia Miranda Sheild Johansson Chapter 2. God's Delivery State: Taxes, Tithes, and a Rightful Return in Urban Ghana Anna-Riikka Kauppinen Chapter 3. The Fiscal Commons: Tax Evasion, the State, and Commoning in a Catalonian Cooperative Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar Chapter 4. Contesting the Social Contract: Tax Reform and Economic Governance in Istria, Croatia Robin Smith Chapter 5. Into and Out of Citizenship, through Personal Tax Payments: Romanian Migrants’ Leveraging of British Self-Employment Dora-Olivia Vicol Chapter 6. The Worth of the ‘While’: Time and Taxes in a Finnish Timebank Matti Eräsaari Afterword: Putting Together the Anthropology of Tax and the Anthropology of Ethics Soumhya Venkatesan Index
£15.15
Berghahn Books Compliance: Cultures and Networks of
Book Synopsis Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.Trade Review “There are few books in the field of Anthropology that tackle the issue of compliance as directly as this volume does … The editors have elicited a set of contributions that make significant and varied ethnographic contributions to fields, some of which have hitherto passed under the radar. The contributions are illuminating, topical and interesting.&rdqup; • Allen Abramson, University College LondonTable of Contents Introduction: Compliance: Politics, Sociability and the Constitution of Collective Life Will Rollason & Eric Hirsch Chapter 1. ‘We Are Poor, So We Keep Quiet’ Anna Berglund Chapter 2. Good People Doing Bad Things: Compliance Regimes in Organisations Steven Sampson Chapter 3. Tax Compliance Dancing: The Importance of Time and Space in Taxing Multinational Corporations Lotta Björklund Larsen and Benedicte Brøgger Chapter 4. Surveillance, Discipline and Care: Technologies of Compliance in a South African Tuberculosis Clinic Jonathan Stadler Chapter 5. The Controversy of Voluntary Carbon Offsetting: Compliance by Proxy Steffen Dalsgaard Chapter 6. Complying in the ‘Right’ Way: Competing Fiscal Rationales in Highland Bolivia and Problem of ‘Compliance’ in Tax Studies Miranda Sheild Johansson Chapter 7. ‘Making Safety Personal’: Safety Compliance, Labour and Ethics in Construction Sarah Winkler-Reid Chapter 8. Compliant Rule-Bending: Migrants’ Encounters with Italian Immigration Bureaucracy Anna Tuckett References Index
£89.10
Peter Lang AG Current Debates on Public Finance: Theory and
Book SynopsisThis book covers current issues and debates in the field of public finance, and features contributions from twenty-one academics across eight different universities. It comprises fourteen chapters, with the first eight covering current discussions in various areas of public finance theory and practices while the last six chapters deal with current debates on tax theory and policies. The aim of this book is to present current debates on public finance from different perspectives. The book titled Current Debates on Public Finance: Theory and Practice not only provides the reader with information on different current issues but also shares the data obtained by different methods. Combining these new methods used in social sciences with public finance theory and practices is important in terms of its contribution to the literature. Therefore, the text is expected to provide information for the reader within the scope of future studies. Thus, the way can be opened for new international cooperations.Table of ContentsTax law, spending, government debt, fiscal policy, and economics.
£37.80
United Nations Statistical measurement of tax and commercial
Book SynopsisThe 2030 Agenda identifies the reduction of IFFs as a priority area, as reflected in target 16.4: 'by 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial flows and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organised crime'. This target is critical for financing efforts to achieve SDGs. IFFs were also identified as a global priority in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (United Nations, 2015) on financing for development which calls for a redoubling of efforts to substantially reduce IFFs, with a view to eventually eliminating them. Regardless of its importance, data on indicator 16.4.1, 'total value of inward and outward illicit financial flows', are not yet reported as part of the SDG indicator framework (United Nations, 2017b). Comparable and reliable statistics on IFFs are needed to shed light on the activities, sectors and channels most prone to illicit finance, pointing to where actions should be undertaken as a priority to curb these flows. This paper was prepared based on process and lessons learned within the United Nations Development Account project on 'Defining, estimating and disseminating statistics on illicit financial flows in Africa', implemented by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Pilot testing by the following countries provided valuable feedback in future refinement of the methods: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Zambia
£17.95
