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A survey of the UK tax system

Thomas Pope and Tom Waters
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This document provides an overview of the UK tax system, describing how each of the main taxes works and setting their current state into a historical context going back to 1979.

 

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ISBN 978-1-909463-68-4
DOI 10.1920/bn.ifs.2000.0009
Publisher IFS
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