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Plucking the Goose: The Role of Taxation in the Modern Social Contract

24-25 April 2008

Rhodes House, Oxford

The purpose of the workshop is to arrive at principles that should govern fair taxes, address some current ideas on the matter and to suggest some solutions to prevailing problems in the tax system of many Western countries.

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