Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 4.

Prelims -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 Great Britain and United Kingdom Tax History -- 1 The Crown Option -- 2 The Origins of Fiscal Transparency in UK Income Tax -- 3 Variations on a Theme: Stamp Duty in the Eighteenth Century -- Part 2 English Tax History -- 4 Fiscal Grievances Underpinning the Magna Carta: Some First Thoughts -- 5 Elizabethan Revenue Law: The Practice of the Court of Wards -- 6 The Poll Taxes in later Seventeenth Century England -- 7 Traders, the Excise and the Law: Tensions and Conflicts in early Nineteenth Century England -- Part 3 International Tax -- 8 Jurisdiction to Tax Companies: the Influences of the Jurisdiction of the Courts and of European Thinking -- 9 'I suppose I must have more discussion on this dreary subject': The Negotiation and Drafting of the UK-Australia Double Taxation Treaty of 1946 -- Part 4 Papers from Other Lands -- 10 The History of Income Tax in Malta, the Early Years (1641-49) -- 11 The History of Land Tax in Australia -- 12 The History of the Taxation of Charities: How the Common Law Development of a Legal Definition of 'Charity' Has Affected the Taxation of Charities -- 13 Remembering the 'Forgotten Man' (and Woman): Hidden Taxes and the 1936 Election.

This work contains the full text of the papers presented at the fourth Tax Law History Conference in July 2008.

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