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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452380903321

Autore

Morris Donald <1945->

Titolo

Tax cheating [[electronic resource] ] : illegal, but is it immoral? / / Donald Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : Excelsior Editions, c2012

ISBN

1-4619-0780-2

1-4384-4272-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Excelsior Editions

Disciplina

172/.1

Soggetti

Tax evasion - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Income tax - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Taxation - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Tax Cheating: Illegal�But Is It Immoral?""; ""Tax Cheating: Illegal�But Is It Immoral?""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter One: Tax Cheating�The Problem""; ""Introduction""; ""Tax Cheating""; ""Tax Fairness""; ""The Meaning of Cheating in Tax""; ""Tax Fraud""; ""Penalties and Deterrence""; ""Cheating�Specific Characteristics""; ""Chapter Two: The Tax Gap, Tax Protestors, and Small Business""; ""The Voluntary Tax System""; ""The World of Tax Protestors""; ""The Gaping Tax Gap""; ""Small Business and the Tax Gap""; ""The Broken Window of Opportunity""

""Chapter Three: Tax Complexity""""The Complexity Problem""; ""Is Complexity to Blame?""; ""The Moral Dilemma""; ""Nonvoluntary Taxation""; ""Complexity and Morals""; ""Is There Ever a Time for Draconian Measures?""; ""Chapter Four: The Moral Duty to Obey the Law""; ""Morality and Legality""; ""Ethical Relativism and Absolutism""; ""The Role of Morality in the Law""; ""Moral Obedience to the Law""; ""The Ethics of Tax Evasion""; ""Justifying a Moral Duty""; ""Chapter Five: Cheating, Competition, and Fairness""; ""Cheating and Competition""; ""Hand-to-Hand Combat""; ""Fairness and Equality""

""Getting What You Pay For""""What If Everyone Cheated?""; ""The



Uneven Playing Field""; ""Chapter Six: Unintentional Cheating""; ""A Fork in the Road""; ""Fair Share Argument""; ""Unintended Cheating""; ""The Meaning of Cheating in Football""; ""Blaming the Messenger""; ""Chapter Seven: The Courts, Equity, and Taxes Due""; ""Taxes and Equity""; ""Rules and Principles""; ""The Innocent Spouse Rules""; ""The Courts and Equity""; ""Equity, Subjectivity, and Negligence""; ""The Bankrupt Taxpayer""; ""Interpreting the Law�Transparency""

""Chapter Eight: Compliance, Complexity, Conscience, and Fairness""""The Moral Dimension of Tax Compliance""; ""The Matthew Effect""; ""Our Vision of a Fair Share""; ""The Moral Quality of Actions""; ""Enlisting Conscience in Reducing Tax Cheating""; ""Conscientious Objectors""; ""Civil Disobedience""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography Excluding Public Documents""; ""Index""