Overview

The modern international tax system is a complex framework of national laws, bilateral treaties, and multilateral agreements aimed at coordinating state tax entitlements. Historically, taxation was based on political allegiance, but globalization and increased mobility introduces new challenges. As more people and businesses operate across borders, it becomes harder to determine which states have the right to tax them. Fragmentation of individuals' economic and political lives has complicated states' abilities to balance liberty, justice, and collective decision-making. Taxing People addresses taxes on individuals, which are crucial for providing public goods, promoting justice, and legitimizing state power. Exploring the future of individual taxation, the book focuses on global tax governance, social changes like remote work, and the evolving relationship between people and states in a globalized economy. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Author:   Tsilly Dagan (University of Oxford) ,  Ruth Mason (University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9781009669344

ISBN 10:   1009669346
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Must everybody pay tax somewhere? Wolfgang Schön; 2. Comfortably numb: should the reign of residence over the international tax regime continue in the 21st century? Yariv Brauner; 3. Taxing nomads: reviving citizenship-based taxation for the 21st century Reuven Avi-Yonah; 4. Reconsidering citizenship taxation Tsilly Dagan and Ruth Mason; 5. Exit, voice and electivity: confronting the rise of private money and private taxation Mitchell A. Kane; 6. Fear of a black planet: Africa's decolonisation and the transformation of the international tax regime Steven A. Dean; 7. Embracing the African union and the African tax administration forum in tax governance Afton Titus; 8. Transformative constitutionalism: the role of citizens in (tax) state-building-the case of Kenya Daisy Ogembo; 9. A Century of labor and taxation Diane M. Ring; 10. The individual, mobility, and the corporate Richard Collier; 11. Time is, time was: evaluating the use of the life-cycle model as a fiscal tool Daniel Shaviro; 12. Living long and living well: tax systems and population ageing Miranda Stewart; Index.

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Tsilly Dagan is Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College . Her main fields of research and teaching are tax law and policy (both domestic and international) and the interaction of the state and the market. Her book International Tax Policy: Between Competition and Cooperation (Cambridge University Press) was the winner of the 2017 Frans Vanistendael Award for International Tax Law. Ruth Mason is the Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation at the University of Virginia Law School. She is an expert on US and EU state taxation whose work has influenced the Supreme Court and Court of Justice of the European Union.

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