Just Taxes

David Kynaston signed a contract to write a book on the City: he ended up writing four substantial volumes. Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History at Cambridge, set out to write a short book on taxation: he has written two 400-odd page volumes and he still bows out at the moment in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher visited her monetarist policies on the land, long before the British had to contend with Self Assessment Forms and the penalties these incur if citizens don't work out for themselves how much they should be taxed. That's how it is with money. It counts.