Includes bibliographical references and index.

Becoming the good migrant : how Romanian migrants mobilise taxpayer status / Dora-Olivia Vicol -- The nurturing state : an intimate portrait of becoming a taxpayer in Ghana / Anna-Riikka Kauppinen -- An ecology of payments : taxes, cuotas, and fees in Highland Bolivia / Miranda Sheild Johansson --The persistence of kindred spirits : tax and values in an Istrian Wine Region / Robin Smith -- Taxation without hegemony : land, fiscal conflicts, and the limits of post neoliberalism in Ecuador / Jeremy Rayner -- Gambling away fraud : tax and speculative governance in Slovakia / Nicolette Makovicky -- Mottos for a more tax compliant society : strategies, tax compliance, research and fiscal practices at the Swedish tax administration / Lotta Björklund Larsen -- General knowledge and particular society : taxation as a way of knowing / Olly Owen -- The colonial debris in the digitalisation of tax in Kenya / Nimmo Elmi -- Fiscal citizenship, assimilation, and colonial governance : a decolonizing analysis of tax in settler states / Kyle Willmott -- Fundraising in Fiji : taxation, proceduralism, and a moral economy of accountability / Matti Eräsaari -- Dead zones of tax inspection : the new strategic direction in the Danish tax authority and its consequences for front staff / Karen Boll -- Tax havens, commodified citizenship, and the production of home in a globalised world / Greg Rawlings -- Sharing beyond the state : international tax norm negotiations at the OECD / Johanna Mugler.

"The first substantial collection of anthropological work on tax, this book uses ethnographic data from around the world to elucidate how tax systems shape not just our economic lives, but our social relationships and our values, and how they categorise people and things. It reconceptualises what taxes do in society"-- Provided by publisher.

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