Editors
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
CHAPTER 1 Why’d You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? Joel Slemrod
CHAPTER 2 A Contemporary Approach to Tax Complexity: Polycentrism in an Increasingly International Tax EnvironmentFrank H. Pedersen
CHAPTER 3 Tax Complexity and Symbolic Power Lynne Oats & Gregory Morris
CHAPTER 4 Measuring Tax Complexity David Ulph
CHAPTER 5 An Integrated Approach to the Economic Measurement of the Costs of Tax Complexity Binh Tran-Nam
CHAPTER 6 Paying Taxes: The Global Picture: An Index to Encourage Tax Reform and the Development of Good Tax Systems Andrew Packman & Neville Howlett
CHAPTER 7 The Paying Taxes Report: Will It Guide Tax System Simplification? Sharon Smulders
CHAPTER 8 Measuring Tax Compliance Costs: Evidence from Australia Philip Lignier, Chris Evans & Binh Tran-Nam
CHAPTER 9 Measuring Tax Complexity: Analytical Framework and Evidence for Individual Income Tax Preferences for Canada Marco Lugo & François Vaillancourt
CHAPTER 10 Administering Tax Complexity versus SimplicityKristin E. Hickman
CHAPTER 11 Tax Complexity: A Necessary Evil? Michael Walpole
CHAPTER 12 Exploring Individual Taxpayers’ Perceptions of Tax Complexity: A Pilot Study Kudakwashe M.M. Muli & Theuns Steyn
CHAPTER 13 Six Degrees of Graduation: Law and Economics of Variable Sanctions Alex Raskolnikov
CHAPTER 14 Some Cautions Regarding Tax Simplification J. Clifton Fleming Jr
CHAPTER 15 The Office of Tax Simplification and Its Complexity Index John Whiting, Jeremy Sherwood & Gareth Jones
CHAPTER 16 Managing Tax Complexity: The Institutional Framework for Tax Policy-Making and Oversight Judith Freedman
CHAPTER 17 Oversight Mechanisms and Administrative Responses to Tax Complexity in the United States John Hasseldine
CHAPTER 18 Pathways for Tax Policy and Administration: Institutions and Simplicity – An Australian Perspective Michael D’Ascenzo
CHAPTER 19 Simplified Small Business Tax Regimes in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence of Use and AbuseJacqueline Coolidge & Fatih Yılmaz
Index