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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Johanna Mugler
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Miranda Sheild Johansson
Affiliation:
University College London
Robin Smith
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
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Anthropology and Tax
Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations
, pp. 353 - 370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Index

Abele, Frances, 250
Abelin, Mireille, 21
abode, 305310
absentee tax, 274, 276
accountability
as bearer of moral value, 264, 281
of chiefs, 83
imposition on First Nations people, 246, 248, 250, 252
public sector, 23, 76
and relatedness, 338
state-society, 326
accountancy
everyday, 68
self, 63
Alianza País, 136, 138, 141, 146, 149, 151
Allingham, Michael G., 184, 191
Alto San Roque, 101104
Amazon, 343344
Anderson, Benedict, 50, 51, 53, 61, 223
anthropology
and decentralisation of the state in study of taxation, 326327
of documents, 12, 63, 183
and ecology, 96
economic, 3
fiscal, 11, 76, 78
and informal economies, 107
and neglect of taxation, 24
promise of for tax study, 3537
of sharing, 328, 331, 333
of the state, 284
of systems, 2
and tax studies, 347349
and territoriality of tax, 319
Antigua & Barbuda, 312
arbetslinjen (work approach), 186
Arce, Luis, 99
Argentina, ethical tax evasion in, 21
Assembly of First Nations (AFN), 246
assimilation
and fiscal citizenship, 255
and taxation, 244, 247
Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and Aid to Citizens (ATTAC), 8
Atuguba, Raymond, 8283
audit control, 188
audit culture, 63, 156, 158, 159, 160, 171, 249
audits
citizen driven, 166
and Danish Tax Authority, 287288
and FNFTA, 245246
and politics of choice, 18
receipt, 162, 164
and self governing, 34
and state distrust, 168
and tax compliance, 189, 291293, 295296
and taxpayer as subject, 254
and taxpayer ethos, 240
Australia
tax residency disputes in, 309310
tax residency requirements in, 306307
Australian Center for Tax System Integrity, 287
Australian Tax Office (ATO), 306307, 310
Austria, 125, 317
Bahamas, 304, 312313
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), 32, 327329, 335, 339, 340346
basic income grants (BIG), 334335
Bateson, Gregory, 96
Bäumer-Escobar, Vinzenz, 2021
Bayart, Jean-Francois, 83
Bear, Laura, 159
behavioural change, 163
behavioural economics, 160, 163, 179
behavioural science, and speculative governance, 158, 160
Belize, 316
Belshaw, Cyril, 276
Benue, 216, 217
Bergman, Ingmar, 188
Bergsaglio, Brock, 223
Bhambra, Gurminder, 26, 33, 241242
Björklund Larsen, Lotta, 20, 28, 162, 166, 330
Bloch, Maurice, 97
Bolivia
ecology of payments in, 106107
informal economy in, 107109
payments to non-state actors in, 12
political situation in, 98101
rejection of fiscal model of reciprocity in, 331
role of commercial licenses in ecology of payments in, 104106
role of cuotos in ecology of payments in, 102104
and taxation as method of inclusion, 241
Boll, Karen, 23, 28, 182
bookkeeping, in colonial administration of Fiji, 272274
bootlegging, 28, 115, 128131
Braithwaite, John, 287
Braithwaite, Valery, 287
British Virgin Islands, 313
Bryant, Rebecca, 159
Bulgaria, 53, 57, 317
bullshit jobs, 167, 295
bureaucracy
dead zones in, 284286, 298301
differences in perception between strategic apex and operational core, 295298
and disillusionment of operational core, 291293
and satisfaction among operational core, 293295
street-level, 286
structural violence of, 284285, 294, 299
Bush, Barbara, 241
Buzalka, Juraj, 166
cadastre, 143, 146
calculation technologies, 22, 36, 159
Cameron, Angus, 31
Canada
commensuration in, 247250
critique of First Nations self government in, 250252
First Nations and private property in, 240
First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA), 34, 240, 245247, 250252
as settler colonial state, 242243
taxation as technology of citizenship in, 243245
capitalism, 22
code of, 32
crony, 126
extractive, 241, 243
financialisation of, 5
free market, 28
global, 320
global racial, 240
new spirit of, 26
and speculative governance, 158161, 170
care
paternal, 83
and patronage, 89, 91
reciprocity as, 78
as self-employment, 58
and transactional exchange, 66
as untaxed labour, 25
as welfare state motto, 187
Carrier, James, 123
Catalonia, ethical tax evasion in, 2021
Cayman Islands, 313, 340
Center of Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA), 329, 340, 346
ceremonial exchange, 279280
chance, 28, 157, 160, 163165, 168, 171, 172173
Channel Islands, 312, 313
Chávez, Jeanine Añez, 99
Chevalier, Sophie, 315
chieftancy, 8283
Citizens’ Revolution (Ecuador), 136137
and hegemonic theory, 152
hegemonic tax policies of, 138141
progressive technocrative worldview of, 149
citizenship
civic duty as virtuous, 85
commodification of, 29, 316320
as community of values, 50, 54
differentiation of by race and gender, 7
differentiation of by value systems, 51
economic, 28
and equality before the law, 51
ethnicity based, 208
evocation of for tax compliance, 187188
fiscal, 28, 79, 84, 88, 156, 158, 245, 247250, 253255
and formal work, 60
incentivisation of good, 172
Indigenous, 210
malleability of, 51
and the migration industry, 66
and modernity, 229
racial ideals of, 6061
and settler colonialism, 241
and tax residency, 310311
taxation as path to, 4950
taxation as technology of, 243245
and taxpayer status, 6768
and technopopulism, 139
and valorisation of self-sufficiency, 54
citizenship by investment (CBI), 304, 310
and COVID-19, 312313
in EU and OECD countries, 316317
in St Kitts & Nevis, 316
inequalities in, 312314
and international tax law changes, 317318
OECD recommedations, 318319
civic duty, 8485
collective rights, 136, 144145, 146
colonial administration, 34, 76, 80, 232, 235, 276
and digitalisation, 223224
extractive nature of, 224
extractive taxation under, 228229
of Fiji, 272274
fiscal and infrastructural legacies of, 232234
fiscal systems of, 227229
and indirect rule, 274
and individualism, 278, 280
lack of reciprocity under, 228
and private property, 272
and view of taxpayers as collective, 234
colonial debris, 224, 234
colonialism
and extractive taxation, 76, 241242, 243
and the global infrastructure turn, 223
and ‘good tax’ policy prescriptions, 226
poll tax as tool of, 8081
and taxes, 3335, 240243
commensuration
and fiscal citizenship, 247250
and subjectification of Indigenous peoples, 253
commercial licences, 23, 331
in ecology of payments, 104106
commodification
of citizenship, 319
of tax residency, 312315
Common Reporting Standard (CRS), 318
communicative governance, 178, 180, 183, 186, 193
comunas
arguments for property tax exemption, 145
constitutional protections of, 142
as private property, 142144
tax-free status of, 137
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), 137
contingency, 157, 159, 161, 163165, 171
contract law, 12
Correa, Rafael, 136, 139, 141, 146147, 149150
corruption
Bolivian, 100, 103, 109, 331
Croatian, 126
Ecuadorian, 136
and electronic tax filing systems, 6
Ghanaian, 75, 83
racialised assumptions of, 337
Romanian, 57
Slovakian, 168, 169, 172
and state capture, 129
COVID-19, 9, 157, 215
and citizenship by investment (CBI), 312313
credit liberalisation, 5
Croatia
ethical dilemmas posed by spirits tax regime, 117123
evolution of tax regime in, 115116
history of taxation and regulation of spirits in, 116120
reevaluation of vinaza value in, 128132
tax regime effects on value of trapa, 123127
trapa production in, 113114
cryptocurrencies, 12, 13
cuotos, 102104
Cyprus, 304, 317
D’Avella, Nicholas, 96, 107
Danish Tax Authority, 286
as bureaucratic dead zone, 298301
changes in performance indicators, 287
disillusionment with new strategic direction of, 291293
new strategic direction of, 286288
perceived hypocricy of strategic apex in, 295296
satisfaction among operational core, 293295
strategic apex and operatational core perception differences, 295298
strategic apex reactions to criticism of, 289291
data, political economy of, 205209
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 19
dead zones, 284286, 293, 298299, 301
Denmark
sin taxes in, 18
sugar tax in, 19
development. See also Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD)
aid, 75
in Bolivia, 101102
and bureaucracy, 286
consequences for, 34
domestic resources, 327
in Ecuador, 138139, 140
EU, 57
in Fiji, 268
and games, 160
in Ghana, 7980, 84
global discourses, 223224
independence era African, 201
index, 100, 207
and infrastructure, 234235
in Kenya, 226227
special taxes and, 57
and state-citizenship nexus, 326
of wage labour markets, 204
digitalisation, 8, 14, 34, 223, 341
and extractive modes of taxation, 228
and colonial infrastructural rationales, 234236
colonial rationale for, 224, 231234
as solution to development crisis, 225
of tax in Kenya, 229232
and understanding of taxpayer as a collective, 234
disclosure, 165168, 173, 245, 254
distributed ledgers, 14
distributional logics, 204, 205, 215218
domicile, 305310
and financial privilege, 308309
Dominica, 312
Douaire-Marsaudon, Françoise, 279
EB-5 Investor Programme, 314315
ecologies of investment, 96
ecology of payments, 9698, 101, 106107
commercial licences in, 104106
cuotos place in, 102104
place of tax reciepts in, 108110
as shift away from neoclassical economic thinking, 107
Tailless Fox folktale as illustration of, 106
ecology of the mind, 96
economic citizenship, 28
economy of words, 183
economy, informal, 107109, 122
Ecuador
Citizen’s Revolution, 136137
collective rights and taxation in, 144145
communal property tax status in, 145
hegemonic tax policies of, 138141
ley de plusvalías, 137, 146151
as Plurinational State, 136
privatisation of communal land in, 146, 152
taxation of communal property in, 142144
tax-free status of comunas in, 137
egalitarianism, 280
electronic tax filing systems, 6
Elmi, Nimmo, 24, 34, 241
e-money, 13
Enns, Charis, 223
equality. See also inequality
before the law, 51, 191
global, 35, 337
as moral vision for society, 97
of opportunity, 19
socio-economic, 1
taxpayer, 18
Eräsaari, Matti, 1617, 22
Eritrea, 305
Espeland, Wendy, 247250
ethics
Indigenous, 100
of neoliberalism, 54
of sharing, 97
of spirits tax regimes, 117123
of tax evasion, 1921
of taxation, 1921, 23, 132
European Court of Justice, 317
exchange
asymmetrical, 22
ceremonial, 276280
depersonalised, 10
direct, 103
favour, 66
and fiscal authority, 157, 162
gift, 36, 330, 334, 335, 347
of goods, 106107
limits of as category for theorising tax, 97
as logic of taxation, 82
long-term agreements, 116
long-term logics of, 80, 97
market, 190
multi-party work, 17
and patronage, 77
and production relations, 121
reciprocal, 3, 78, 144, 328330, 332, 335, 347348
of sacrifices, 12
and sharing, 281
and state benefits, 106
and tax negotiation, 84
and taxation, 101
of tax-related information, 318
theorisation of, 9798
transactional, 66
exclusion, politics of, 55
expertise, as taxable, 1617
fair share, 163, 179, 186, 190191, 195, 281, 328, 330
federalism, 208, 311
Fiji
ceremonial exchange in, 276280
codification by Native Administration, 272274
colonial administration of, 272274
fundraising in, 264, 266272, 281
history of Indigenous taxation in, 274276
‘Fijian way’, 271272, 276
financial crisis, 2008, 5, 52, 212, 328, 340, 346
financial speculation, 28, 171
and tax evasion, 156
financialisation, 8, 158, 159, 170, 200, 218
as driver of the creation of data, 213
of public assets, 158159
and speculative labor
speculative, 159
fines, 100, 103, 115, 118, 125, 329
punitive, 115
First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA), 34, 240, 245247
and First Nations self-government, 250252
First Nations people
band government of, 250252
critique of self government of, 250252
and fiscal citizenship, 247250, 253255
and private property regimes, 240
rights in settler colonialist context, 242243
fiscal citizenship, 28, 79, 84, 88, 156, 158, 245, 255
and commensuration, 247250
and First Nations people, 253255
fiscal commons, 12
fiscal essentialism, 12, 13, 76, 327
fiscal sociality, 4, 15, 29, 36
fiscal sociology, 3, 26, 29, 244, 326
fiscal solidarity, 162163
fiscal state, 30
fiscal studies, 30
fiscal subjects, 1213, 35, 171, 247
speculative governance of, 156, 157
Folkhemmet (People’s Home), 186
foreign direct investment (FDI), 313, 317, 319
forfait fiscal, 311
Foucault, Michel, 201, 219
France
progressive taxation in, 7
yellow vests protest, 76
Free Territory of Trieste, 119
free trade zones, 317
fundraising
colonial origins of, 264265
and moral economy, 281
and state taxation in Fiji, 263264
G20, 1, 327, 340, 344345
gambling, 157, 164. See also lotteries
games, 159160
gamification, 158
Gardner, Leigh, 34, 227
gender
differentiation of citizenship by, 7
and family patrimony, 148
identity and relations, 35
and mode of governance, 89
relations, 24, 27
and taxation, 29
work as leveller of relations of, 58
George, Henry, 150
Ghana
appeals to civic duty in, 85
conceptualisation of taxes as gift, 8485
distrust of tax system, 7476
evocation of Christian obligation in, 80, 84, 88
fiscal model of reciprocity in, 8085
genealogy of tax resistance in, 7679
history of chieftancy in, 8283
macroeconomic shifts in, 7980
media liberalisation and tax resistance in, 81
poll tax in, 8081
reciprocal view of taxation in, 7679
tax bargaining in, 8082
taxpayer expectations in, 330
taxpayer status and legitimacy in, 8789
tithing in, 12, 97
Ghana Educational Trust Fund, 82
Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme, 82
Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), 7476, 89
global infrastructure turn, 223
global minimum tax rate, 8
global value chains, 35, 338, 346
globalisation
economic, 337
and residency change, 305
and residency tests, 306
Goffman, Erving, 60
Goldstein, Dan, 105
good governance, 6, 34, 251
Gordon, Arthur, 272, 275
governmentality, 2730, 245, 254
Graeber, David, 284286, 288, 293, 294, 298300
and framing of DTA response to criticism, 290291
Gramsci, Antonio, 152
Greece, 5, 314
Grenada, 312
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
and CBI programmes, 316
and development, 226
EU growth rates, 57
tax to ratio, 100, 184
Gupta, Akhil, 286
Guyer, Jane, 22, 131, 278
Habitual Residence Test, 50
Harmful Tax Competition project, 3132
Hart, Keith, 107
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 19
hegemony
revenue imperative of, 227
theory of, 152
Helsinki, timebanks and taxes in, 1617
Henley & Partners, 312, 316
High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs), 305, 317319
Holmes, Douglas, 183
homo economicus, 15, 36
homogenisation, 138
Hong Kong, 312, 313
Huerlimann, Gisela, 311
imaginaries, 14
of bounded publics, 34
of nation-centred economies, 31
of taxation, 2427
of taxation in liberal readings of history, 244
immigration
transitional controls, 5254, 57, 58, 6465
and valorisation of self-sufficiency, 5254
incompleteness, 211, 214
Indian Act (Canada), 242243, 245, 252
Indigeneship, 210
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), 245, 247250
Indigenous people. See also First Nations people
rights of, 137
taxation of, 274276
as taxpayers, 243245
indirect rule, 210, 218, 219, 274
inequality
and commodification of citizenship, 29
gap, 78
global economic, 338
income, 2, 57
post-colonial social, 223
structuring of, 11
wealth, 10, 15
informal work, 13, 23, 166
infrastructure
administrative, 14
capacity for tax collection, 23
under colonial administration, 228229
of colonialism, 239
and communal land, 144146
computational, 14
and development, 232235
digital, 64
fiscal, 27
global turn in, 223
history of, 224
and property taxes, 139140
public, 81, 100, 102, 136, 264, 331
and reciprocity, 234236
and rightful return, 8990
and speculative governance, 158160
and state power, 105106
tax, 345
and taxation, 3, 22
inheritance tax, 16, 137, 140, 146, 147
intellectual property, 32, 341342, 344
internally generated revenue (IGR), 207, 215
international tax cooperation, 8
interpretive labour, 285, 299
intimacy, cultural, 89
invisibilization, 141, 143
Isle of Man, 313
Istria. See also Croatia
trapa relations and values in, 115116
ITax (Kenya), 222, 224225, 230
colonial rationales of, 227, 231232
James, Deborah, 5
James, Henry, 140
Japan, 7
Jefferson, Thomas, 19
Jerven, Morten, 201202, 212, 219
Kauppinen, Anna-Riikka, 12, 97, 330
Kenya
colonial administration of, 227229
colonial legacies on tax system in, 227
colonial rationale for digitalisation in, 231236
digitalisation of tax in, 229232
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), 222
kinship, 29, 103, 140, 166, 272
Knight, Daniel, 159
knowledge, political economy of, 209212
Küchler, Susanne, 107
Lagos, 206, 216
Law of Communes (Ecuador), 142
Law to Avoid Speculation on the Value of Land and the Establishment of Taxes (Ecuador). See ley de plusvalías
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 4
ley de plusvalías (value-added land tax), 141, 146151, 152
as confiscation of family patrimony, 147148
and cadastral system, 151
denunciation as marxist, 150
opposition to, 147149
liberalism
embedded, 7, 21
and government critique, 251252
and Indigenous peoples, 255
and settler colonialism, 251
social, 151
white paper, 240
Lipsky, Michael, 286
lotteries. See also Slovak National Receipt Lottery
and the public good, 161
as regressive tax, 157
and taxation, 156158
Luxembourg Leaks (2014), 8
Makovicky, Nicolette, 28
Malaby, Thomas, 160
Malaysia, 309
Malinowski, Bronislav, 4
Mallett, Shelley, 320
Malta, 304, 311, 317, 318
Maltby, Josephine, 241
markets
grey, 114
informal, 96, 100
and tax practices, 13
Marshall Islands, 316
Marshall, Thomas Humphrey, 51
Martin, Isaac, 326
Marx, Karl, 2
Maurer, Bill, 3132
Mauss, Marcel, 4, 27, 107, 189
Mazzucato, Mariana, 7, 9
Mbembe, Achille, 83
McCaffery, Edward, 29
McClure, Julia, 33
Meagher, Kate, 1213, 76, 108
Mehrothra, Ajay, 326
Methodist Church, 267271
microstates, 313
migrants, Romanian
in British public imaginary, 5457
and industriousness as defence against stigma, 6162
legitimisation of by street-level accountants, 6267
and self-suffiency, 59
and taxpayer status, 4951
taxpayer narratives of, 5051, 67
as taxpayers, 6267
and transitional immigration controls, 5254, 57, 58, 6465
uncomfortable relation to benefit seeking, 5960
view of hard work and self-sufficiency, 5759
migration. See also immigration
fiscal, 313
global, 305
industry, 66
investor programme, 317
restrictions on, 61
Mills, C. Wright, 320
Mintzberg, H., 287
minus municipalities, 250
Mitchell, Timothy, 108, 201, 219
Monaco, 304, 312, 313
Montesquieu, 19
Moore, Mick, 226, 227
moral capital, 50, 60
moral economy, 281
of belonging, 309
and Fijian fundraising, 280
and lotteries, 161
taxation as, 264266
moral luck, 167168
Morales, Evo, 99
Moreno, Lenin, 137, 147
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 274
Mosse, David, 286
mottos
appeals to collective solidarity, 191
imperative, 192193
moral, 190191
motivational, 189
organisational, 188190
political, 186188
and reciprocal and redistributive elements of taxation, 187
and responsibile citizenship, 187188
and tax compliance, 178182, 186195
and taxpayer depictions, 189190
and the welfare state, 188
Movement Toward Socialism – Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS), 99101
Mugler, Johanna, 15, 32, 36
multinational enterprises (MNE), 339343
and Permanent Establishment (PE) debates, 343344
and social negotiation of PE status, 343346
municipal services, 145146
Naloto. See Fiji
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) (Nigeria), 213
Native Administration (Fiji), 272274
naturalisation, 316
Nauru, 316
Nebot, Jaimie, 140
neoliberalism, 32
audit culture of, 158, 159
British, 55
empowerment policies of, 334
ethics of, 54
moral imperative of, 58
politics of privitasation of, 56
and processes of global financial circulation, 170
and valorisation of self-sufficiency, 5152
taxpayer as ideal subject in, 54
New Fiscal Sociology, 3, 26, 326
New Hebrides. See Vanuatu
New Patriotic Party (NPP), 79
New Zealand, 311, 314
tax residency requirements in, 306
New Zealand Inland Revenue Department (NZ IRD), 306
Nigeria
census debates, 205208
distributional logics and knowledge creation in, 215218
game of numbers in, 205206
growth of knowledge legibility in, 212214
information illegibility in, 211212
knowledge creation in, 218220
as oil state, 203, 204207
and politcal economy of empire, 203204
political economy of data in, 205209
political economy of knowledge in, 209212
public revenues in, 203209
tax reform and knowledge creation in, 200201
nudge theory, 160
nurturing state, 7679, 89, 91
Oats, Lynne, 178
Occupy movement, 5
Offshore Finance Centres (OFCs), 304, 314, 317
183 day test, 306, 309
Ong, Aiwha, 54
operational core, 286, 287, 288, 301
differences in perception from strategic apex, 295298
disassociation from strategic apex, 298
disillusionment of, 291293
and job satisfaction, 293295
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). See also Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS)
and citizenship by investment, 318319
and citizenship by investment (CBI), 316317
cooperatiave compliance initiatives of, 185
definition of tax, 329
and digitalisation, 226
and global minimum tax rate, 8
Harmful Tax Competition project, 31
Model Tax Convention, 344
modes of conversation in tax debates of, 338343
modes of presence in tax debates of, 343346
and production of global tax knowledge, 226
relatedness debates within, 336338
tax norms of, 336
and value creation, 1
Organización Territorial de Base (OTB), 102103, 108109
Owen, Olly, 27, 108
Paine, Thomas, 140
Palmater, Pamela, 246
The Panama Papers (2016), 8
para-ethnography, 182
Parry, Jonathan, 97
passive revolution, 139
patente. See commercial licence tax
paternalism, 163
patronage, 11, 66
and care, 89, 91
as rightful return, 77
and tax bargaining, 85
taxes as, 8991
pauschalbesteuerung, 311
PAYE (pay as you earn), 225, 333
Peebles, Gustav, 265
Permanent Establishment (PE), 343344
personal allowance, 25
Piketty, Thomas, 7
Polanyi, Karl, 3, 7, 97
poll taxes, 34, 8081, 83
Ponzi schemes, 170
pooling, 333
Poovey, Mary, 273
postcolonialism, 14, 223224, 228, 241, 242, 281, 327, 337
pošten (acting with integrity), 115116, 120, 121, 128132
post-socialism, 114, 168171, 172
poverty premium, 68
Prasad, Monica, 326
Price, John A., 333
Prichard, Wilson, 80
Primero de Mayo, 98101, 108
Prince, Michael J., 250
property taxes, 141146
and collective rights, 144145
as means of socialising unearned gains, 151
and municipal services, 144
as reciprocal exchange, 144
property, communal
importance of to self-governance, 143
and political autonomy, 145
privatisation of, 146, 152
taxation of, 142144
property, private
as absolute good, 140
and colonial administration, 272
as condition for municipal services, 145146
cumunas as, 142144
distribution of, 151
and First Nations people, 240, 247, 252
regularisation of communal property as, 152
rights, 7, 138, 151, 331
state protection of, 21
taxation of, 139, 140
Prudencio, Don, 108
public assets, financialisation of, 159
public good, 11, 1314
lotteries as, 163
neoliberal view of, 161, 171
Pueblo Kitu Kara, 137, 142, 143
Quito Metropolitan District (DMQ), 137
race
and finance, 2930
and idealistic views of citizenship, 6061
rationality, 210
bureaucratic, 201203
calculative, 158, 159
economic, 20, 138, 166
Rawlings, Greg, 29, 3132
Rayner, Jeremy, 20
reciprocity, 3
and care, 78
and chieftancy, 8283
and desires for the state, 91
fiscal model of in Ghana, 8085
generalised, 332
lack of under colonial administration, 228
obscuration of other fiscal relations, 97
patronage as, 77
rejection of fiscal model of, 331
and rightful return, 8991
and sharing, 331333
and tax compliance mottos, 187
and taxation, 330
and transfers, 8485, 89, 91
and view of taxation in Ghana, 7679
redistribution, 3, 281
academic conversations concerning, 36
in colonial era, 78
complexity of, 10
and modalities of collection, 334
moral, 11
new models of, 4
and popular usurpation of state power, 265
of risk, 159
socio-economic, 13
and solidarity, 163
state as agent of, 11, 76, 78
and state-society reciprocity, 97
and tax compliance mottos, 187
taxation capacity of, 8, 9
of wealth, 156
redistributive justice, 156, 158
registration
and data, 201, 207209
and immigration, 53
and knowledge legibility, 214, 219
of private property, 139, 144, 146
Slovak National Receipt Lottery, 161
as taxpayers, 212213
regulation
and conceptualisations of property, 32, 331
economic, 12, 339
and fairness, 264
financial, 8, 31
and food production, 119
and moral economy, 265
and the nanny state, 78
Native Administration, 272274, 275
poltical reluctance, 160
societal resistance to, 118
of spirits, 115, 116120, 121, 123126
and tax competition, 8, (see also BEPS)
and tax evasion, 172
tax audit, 295296
relatedness, 37, 329, 333, 335, 343
modes of, 335338, 347, 348
and national interests, 336338
residence by investment (RBI), 304, 310, 312, 314315, 317
residency, and taxation, 305310
Revenue Administration Reforms and Modernisation Program (RARMP) (Kenya), 230
revenue consultants, 217
Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC), 205, 207
Ricardo, David, 140, 150
rightful return, 77, 8991
Riles, Annelise, 183
risk
analysis, 23, 287
and lotteries, 28, 158
quantitative rationale of, 30
socialisation of, 5
Rodman, Margaret, 305
Roitman, Janet, 1114, 241
Rose, Nikolas, 51
Royal Africa Company, 34
Sahlins, Marshall, 278, 280, 332
Sampson, Steven, 167
Sánchez de Lozada, Gonzalo, 99
Sandmo, Agnar, 184, 191
Sauder, Michael, 247250
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, 2, 30
Scott, James C., 27, 201, 210211, 218
self-employment, 1, 4950, 52, 53, 58, 6365, 67
self-sufficiency, 62, 6768, 309
as defence against stigma, 60
importance of to Romanian migrants, 64
valorisation of, 5054
settler colonialism, 13, 34, 239240, 241
and First Nations rights, 242243
taxation as strategy of, 243245
theorisation of the taxpayer in, 253255
sharing, 3, 15, 328329
anthroplogy of, 331336
communal, 275
communities of, 25
and equal exchange, 281
ethics of, 97
facilitated by taxation, 334
as generalised reciprocity, 278
and gift exchange, 334
information, 318
as lens for understanding taxation, 331336
mandatory, 333
practices, 338339, 340
and reciprocity, 331333
and social permeability, 344
as social practice, 343
and taxation, 347349
taxation as mandatory form of, 328329
as transfer, 334335, 339
and trapa, 116, 123
vinaza, 131, 132
Sheild Johansson, Miranda, 12, 23, 241, 331
Simmel, Georg, 2
Simpson, Audra, 243
sin taxes, 18, 117
Singapore, 309
Skatteverket. See Swedish Tax Agency (STA)
slogans. See mottos
Slovak National Receipt Lottery, 156158, 161165
and anxiety about social solidarity, 167
citizen disenchantment with, 168171
and fiscal solidarity, 162163
and fraud detection, 162
as liberal vision of the public good, 163
model citizen responses to, 165166
and moral luck, 167168
and neoliberal view of public good, 171
as regime of disclosure, 165168, 173
and resistance to role of citizen tax inspector, 165167
resistance to role as citizen tax inspector, 165167
as response to VAT gap, 162
and speculative behaviour, 165
and speculative economies of post-socialism, 168171
and speculative governance, 171
view of as Ponzi scheme, 170
Smith, John, 205206
Smith, Robin, 16, 22, 28
social contract
criticism of, 26
liberal version of, 163, 326
moral vision of, 97
and state-citizen relationships, 97
and taxation, 6, 35, 76, 78, 240, 326, 347
theory, 13, 14, 83
Western ideas of, 10
social media tax, 16
social theory of taxation, 23
socialism, 21, 120, 136, 139
soli (giving), 266272. See also fundraising
constrasts to ceremonial exchange, 276280
in contrast to traditional Fijian events, 276280
contrast to ‘Fijian way’, 271272
and egalitarianism, 279, 280
formal pattern of, 268271
individual nature of, 266272
and moral economy, 281
organisers of, 267
and state-village relations, 267268
sovereignty
fiscal, 31
Indigenous, 34, 240, 242245, 246, 250252
national, 33, 336
Spain, 5, 147
colonisation of Latin America, 33
speculation, 158159
speculative economies, post-socialist, 168171
speculative finance, 159160
speculative governance, 27, 156161, 171
and behavioural science, 158, 160
spirits
ethics of tax regimes of, 117123
history of taxation and regulation of in Croatia, 116120
regulation of, 115, 117, 121, 123, 126
taxation and reevaluation of value, 128132
Spivak, Gayatri, 223
St Kitts & Nevis, 304, 311, 312
citizenship by investment (CBI) in, 316
St Lucia, 312
state capture, 126, 129, 131, 170, 172
state-building, 13
states
decentralisation of, 140
difficulty in defining, 15
diversity of taxation practices, 14
power to define taxes, 14
and public good imaginaries, 14
and regimes of knowing, 201
rentier, 18, 201, 204
and the state effect, 15, 108
taxes as defined by, 1315
statistics, 202, 208, 209, 219, 230
Stiglitz, Joseph, 226
stigma, 25
migrant, 54
monetary, 60
of otherness, 50
theory of, 60
Stoler, Ann, 224
strategic apex, 287, 288290, 294, 301
differences in perception from operational core, 295298
view of as hypocritical, 298
street-level accountants
and legitimisation of migrant taxpayers, 6267
structural violence
of bureaucracy, 284285, 294
Suberu, Rotimi, 208
subprime loans, 5
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 225
Sweden
ethical tax evasion in, 20
gift exchange and reciprocity in, 330
tax compliance in, 178182, 193195
use of mottos in tax compliance in, 186195
Swedish Tax Administration (STA)
mottos, 178182
mottos as tool for tax compliance, 193195
tax compliance work of, 193195
use of mottos in tax compliance, 186193
Switzerland
citizenship by investment (CBI) in, 312
lump-sum tax in, 314
tax advantages of non-citizenship, 311
tax concessions for foreigners in, 313
tax incentives for residence in, 304
tax residency in, 311
Tailless Fox (folktale), 106
Tangier International Zone, 312
tax avoidance, 169, 232
Allingham and Sandmo’s model of, 184
tax bargaining, 8082, 85, 91
tax collection, 13, 14, 192
and data, 22, 27
digital, 230
as good governance, 6
infrastructure requirements for, 23
tax competition, 8, 32, 317, 340
tax compliance, 76, 178
appeals to collective solidarity, 191
and audits, 291293
and depictions of taxpayes, 189190
key factors in, 184
motivational approaches to, 189
and mottos, 178182, 193
strategies, 184186
work of Swedish Tax Agency, 193195
tax concessions, 314
tax evasion
ethical views of, 2021
and financial speculation, 156
and informal work, 166
and speculative logics, 157
tax havens, 31, 240, 304, 310, 313314, 317, 318, 328, 341
tax holidays, 315, 317
Tax Identification Number (TIN), 75, 79, 161, 213, 218
tax inspectors
consumers as voluntary, 157, 172
disillusionment with new new strategic direction of DTA, 291293
divergent viewpoints from strategic apex, 297
downsizing of, 23
exposure of to structural violence, 299
and job satisfaction, 293295
and mottos, 186
as operational core, 287, 298, 300
performance indicators, 288, 291
positive self-image of, 190
sceptical view of taxpayers, 188
of spirits tax, 118
tacit knowledge of, 181
tax justice, 8, 32, 35, 340, 346
Tax Justice Network (TJN), 8
tax law, international, 31
and citizenship by investment (CBI), 318
and relatedness, 329
tax lottery, 27, 28
tax planning, 308, 340
tax policy
infrastructural turn in, 226227
international debates, 3132
tax politics, 244
and capitalist hegemony, 141
tax protests, 5. See also tax revolts
tax reform, 5, 22, 200, See also BEPS
and knowledge creation, 200201
tax residency, 305310
and citizenship, 310311
and class inequalities, 309310
and commodification of citizenship, 319320
commodification of, 312315
and financial privilege, 308309
tests of, 306
tax residency tests. See 183 day rule
tax revolts, 76, 78, 80, 81, 88
tax systems
and data creation, 201203
distinct logics of, 36
and ethics, 19
and exploitation, 4
reinforcement of wealth inequality in, 10
and socio-economic relations, 4
transnationality of, 3033
tax, inheritance, 1920
tax, international
modes of conversation in debates of, 338343
modes of presence in debates of, 343346
relatedness in debates of, 335338
tax, special, 89
taxable presence, 343, 344
taxation
and alternative modes of redistribution, 76, 328
anthropological approach to, 2
and assimilation, 244, 247
and bureaucratic rationality, 201203
canonical social sciences approach to, 2
under colonial administration, 227229
and colonial logics, 14
of communal property, 144
and corporate social responsibility, 8
and creation of dual markets, 122123
decentralisation of state in anthropolgical study of, 326327
decolonisation of, 243245
decolonising approach to study of, 239240
and demand for state interventions in the market, 9
effects on perception of value of trapa, 123127
effects on social relations, 132
effects on value, 128132
and empire building, 3334
ethical debates regarding, 1921
extractive, 228229, 241242, 243
extractive colonial, 76
as facilitator of sharing, 334
forms of reasoning of, 13
as fundamental to sustainable development, 6
geopolitical effects of, 14
and gift exchange, 330
and good governance, 6
and governmentality, 2730
harmful practice, 31
ideological framing of, 21
imaginaries of, 2427
of Indigenous Fijians, 276
international, 327329
international norms, 31
lotteries as form of, 156158
as method of inclusion, 241
as moral economy, 264266
multidimensional approach to study of, 12
neglect of by anthropology, 24
neglect of by social science, 13
norms of, 13
as path to citizenship, 4950
as political issue, 2
and politics of choice, 18
of private property, 139
privatisation of communal land and, 146
and producing publics, 25
progressive, 7, 139
promise of anthropology for study of, 3537
and quantifiability of value, 22
and reciprocity, 330
and reexamination of ethical values, 128132
and residency, 305310
and resource capacity, 23
and sharing, 347349
sharing as mandatory form of, 328329
and social contract, 6
and social theory, 23
and social legitimatisation, 25
as the social contract, 326
and social value of taxpayers, 2527
and state-building, 4
and state-citizen relations, 28
as strategy of settler colonialism, 243245
as techonology of citizenship, 243245
timing of, 22
of unearned income from land rents, 140
and value conflicts, 115116
and view of labor as burden, 123124
view of through decolonising lens, 253255
and wealth transfer, 7
taxes
and colonialism, 3335, 240243
and cultural intimacy, 89
as defined by states, 1315
definitions of, 1015
as depersonalised exchange, 10
and ecology of other payments, 9698
and forms of resource extraction, 11
and gender and kin relations, 29
as gift, 8485
informal, 11, 12, 13
legal definitions of, 329
as materialisation of normative regimes, 12
and non-state payments, 1113
as part of a universe of transfers, 12
as patronage, 8991
place of in ecology of payments, 108110
power to produce imagined relations, 15
as productive economic force, 7
and reciprocity towards the state, 77
regressive, 157
role in creating distance from the state, 97
role in creating relationships within and beyond the state, 91
and territoriality, 319
as type of money transfer, 326327
taxes, property
and spread of private property, 140
and state decentralisation, 140
taxpayer status
as assertion of legitimacy, 8789
as challenge to stigma of otherness, 50
and citizenship, 6768
inequalities of relating to residency tests, 309310
as integral to business success, 75
as a reconfiguration of Indigenous citizen status, 253255
of Romanian migrants, 4951
taxpayer subject, 26
taxpayers
differentiated treatment of, 23, 287
expectations of, 330331
as ‘good’ migrants, 6267
Indigenous peoples as, 243245
as proxy for the ideal citizen, 5152
social value of, 2527
subjectification of, 253
subjectivity of, 240
tax-to-GDP ratio, 100, 184
technopopulism, 139
territoriality, 320
and class, 310
and tax, 319
The Information Technology Management System (ITMS) (Kenya), 230
Thompson, E. P., 264, 281
Thurston, John B., 276
timebanks, 1617
time-limited special taxes, 8
tithing, 11, 12, 13, 77, 91, 97, 267, 326
Todorova, Maria, 56
Tonga, 279280
Toren, Christina, 270271, 280
transfers
and cultural intimacy, 89
debt, 7
and gift exhange, 347
non-tax, 12, 98
and reciprocity, 8485, 89, 91, 332333
relationships between transactors, 91
and sharing, 3537, 334335, 339
social, 26
social productivity of, 77
state taxes as, 15
and state-citizen fiscal relations, 83
taxes as type of, 326327
unidirectional, 331
wealth, 7
transnational workers, 310, 320
transnationalism, 1
and migration, 29, 319
networks of, 62
and study of taxation, 348
and tax demands, 8
and tax justice, 32
and tax payments, 331
and tax systems, 3033
and trade, 222
transparency. See also First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA)
and commensuration, 247, 249250
and demand for statistical services, 202
fiscal, 161, 171
and governmentality, 254
and privatisation of state-owned firms, 126
as regime of disclosure, 167
and self-governing, 34
social expectations for, 164
as tax subject making technique, 247253
and taxpayer as subject, 254
trapa, 113114
and changes to Croatian tax regime, 115116
historical value of, 116120
taxation as cause of devaluation of, 123127
unearned income, 137, 140
unions, 11, 12, 14, 95, 99, 101, 103, 110, 139, 326
dues in ecology of payments, 106
United Kingdom. See also colonial administration
non-doms in, 308309, 310
Romanian migrants in political imaginary of, 5457
sugar tax, 18
tax residency requirements in, 308309
valorisation of self-sufficiency and immigration policy, 5253
United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development, 6
United States
cryptocurrency defininitions in, 12
and immigration, 314
land speculation in, 147
speculative mortgage in, 5
taxation on basis of citizenship in, 305
Universal Credit, 53, 64
usufruct, 141
misrecognition of as private property, 142144
value
effect of commodification and taxation on, 128132
foundations of, 11
public and private distinctions of, 13
regimes of, 11
stabilisation of as wealth, 12
Value Added Tax (VAT)
anthropological studies of, 168
evasion, 172
evasion of, 157, 163
as fiscal reform, 75
and fraud, 168, 169
gaps, 172
in Ghana, 8182
and illiquidity, 23
and National Receipt Lottery, 27, 162163
negative, 289
opponents to, 287
in rentier states, 18
and Slovak National Receipt Lotttery, 162
and tax revolts, 81
as tax demand, 333
taxpayers as collection agents of, 75, 77, 88
value creation, 1, 341343, 346
and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), 327329
value production, 11
values, taxation and reevaluation of, 128132
Vanuatu, 311, 312, 313
Vicol, Dora-Olivia, 25, 309
Vietnam, 309
vinaza
ecological concerns, 120121
effects of taxation on sharing of, 128132
ethical dilemmas created by Croatian tax regime, 117123
Vision 2030 (Kenya), 222
Vohnsen, Nina Holm, 286
wealth
normative objects of, 11
private, 12
public, 12
public and private distinctions of, 13
as target of state intervention, 12
targets of, 11
wealth taxes, 8
Weick, Karl Edward, 287
welfare state, 24, 97, 181, 186, 242, 246
British, 26, 51
evocation of for tax compliance, 187188
and neoliberalism, 334
and private property rights, 7
tax as instrument of distributive justice in, 163
West Africa Business Expo, 73
Widlok, Thomas, 332336, 343345
Willmott, Kyle, 26, 34
Wolff, Larry, 56
Woodburn, James, 3, 97, 331
World Bank
and digitalisation, 226
and the financial crisis, 6
national economy rankings, 79, 230, 338
Zelizer, Viviana, 91, 107

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