Fair Share of Tax

Preface

1 Exchanges create relations

Defining taxation

Reciprocity

Why Sweden?

Understanding the relation between society and tax

Fieldwork: Ethnography of Swedes' views on taxation

Research on why we pay tax

Anthropology of economic exchanges and reciprocity

Reciprocity proliferating

To see tax as a gift - or?

Conclusion

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2 Taxpayers' relation to their state

Taxes in terms of reciprocity cannot be measured

The Agency's view on why taxpayers comply

Fairness in tax collection

Who is the taxpayer?

A contemporary view of taxpayers at the Agency

Getting value for 'tax' money

Unfairly treated by society

Balancing a fair deal with the state

Conclusion

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3. Taxpayer to taxpayer relation

The Agency's view

Barter

Taxpayer views on barter

Business and private life

An example: Horse trotting

Business and private life continued

Informalizing the formal

Formalizing the informal: Share economy

Conclusion

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4. Tensions between paying and receiving

Being Magister

Progressive marginal tax

Pillars of society

Balance artists

Contributive and distributive balancing

Not paying for those who do not pay

A fair society

Conclusion

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5. Making tax compliant

Taxation is a total social phenomenon

Balance outstanding

Fair share - all need to contribute

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• Impostos
• Antropologia social e cultural

Tax compliance;Reciprocity;Ethnography;Economic anthropology;Welfare;Exchanges;Taxpayer;Marcel Mauss;Swedish Tax Agency;quid-pro-quo exchange;Fiscal anthropology;Swedish tax;Behavioural economics;Economic exchanges and reciprocity;Tax as a gift;Public economics;Progressive marginal tax;Contributive and distributive balancing;Open Access