Paying Up: Further Reading
The following links and documents relate to the BackStory episode “Paying Up: A History of Taxation”, originally broadcast in April of 2010. You can listen to the entire episode here.
All Centuries
- IRS Historical Fact Book: a chronology, 1646-1992
- An overview of tax history from the US Treasury
- A virtual walk through the history of taxes
- The economic history of property taxes
- The Tax History Project
18th Century
- Four experts weigh in on the history of tax revolts
- What do the Federalist Papers say about taxation?
- Wikipedia’s list of obsolete forms of taxation: scuttage, tallage, tithe, danegeld, carucage, and tax farming
19th Century
- “Tax Evasion and the Legacy of Slavery,” an essay by historian Robin Einhorn (plus a review of her book)
- The Great Tax Wars: How the income tax transformed America
- A 19th century history of US taxation
20th Century & Beyond
- JFK’s address on tax cuts to the Economic Club of New York
- How Ford outfoxes the “chicken tax“
- Think our taxes are high? Try moving to Denmark
- PBS’s “Frontline” explores tax shelters
- 20th Century Tax Bracketology
- Where do your tax dollars go? Break it down.
- Disney does taxes: 13th Century & 20th Century
