Daylight Robbery Daylight Robbery

Daylight Robbery

How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future

    • 4.4 • 5 Ratings
    • £2.99

Publisher Description

Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society?

In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ancient world, through to today. He explores the role of tax in the formation of our global religions, the part tax played in wars and revolutions throughout the ages, why, at one stage, we paid tax for daylight or for growing a beard. Ranging from the despotic to the absurd, the tax laws of the past reveal so much about how we got to where we are today and what we can do to build a system fit for the future.

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'An important book for investors in gold and bitcoin' - Daniela Cambone, Stansberry Research

'This entertaining, surprising, contrarian book is a tour de force!' - Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything

'In this spectacular gallop through history, Frisby shows how taxation has warped, stunted and thwarted human progress' - Mark Littlewood, Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs

'Frisby's historical interpretation and utopian ideas will outrage Left and Right' - Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe and Member of the House of Commons Treasury Committee

'Fascinating book which exposes the political and economic basis of tax. A must read for those of us who believe in simpler, lower taxes' - Rt Hon Liz Truss, MP for South West Norfolk, Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2019
17 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SIZE
2.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Monitor69 ,

The open secrets of government exposed

I’ve had to read and re-read the section on inflation, currency de-valuation and taxation several times - my unintelligence rather than any deficit in the writing.

This is essential reading for any amateur historian or indeed anyone filling in their annual tax return and asking themselves ‘why’?

Highly recommended. Well done Frisby!

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