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Hardback. How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies - the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims - legal, economic, cultural - compete to shape taxpayer behaviour. Num Pages: 246 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNS; JHMC; JPP; KFFD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden's most esteemed bureaucracies - the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project's passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to its final abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims - legal, economic, cultural - compete to ... Read more
How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden's most esteemed bureaucracies - the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project's passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to its final abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims - legal, economic, cultural - compete to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785334108
SKU
V9781785334108
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Ref
99-15
About Hardback
Lotta Bjorklund Larsen currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linkoping University, Sweden.
Reviews for 20170228
How tax compliance is shaped merits much more attention than it has received in anthropology and the social sciences. The book offers a wonderful rendering of the true strangeness and contingency of familiar routines - something the best social theory does.
Liz McFall, Open University Shaping Taxpayers will be a significant, indeed, ground-breaking study that will propel ... Read more
Liz McFall, Open University Shaping Taxpayers will be a significant, indeed, ground-breaking study that will propel ... Read more