Cover; Preliminary pages; Preface; Publisher's Note; Professor John Tiley Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Sir Josiah Stamp and Double Income Tax; 2. On the Origins of ModelTax Conventions: Nineteenth-Century German Tax Treatiesand Laws Concerned with the Avoidance of Double Tax; 3. The Relationship of Situs and Source Rules for Tax Purposes; 4. The Income Tax LawRewrite Projects: 1907-56; 5. Law and Administrationin Capital AllowancesDoctrine: 1878-1950; 6. What is the 'Full' Amount?; 7. 'Danegeld'-From DanishTribute to English LandTax: The Evolution of Danegeld from 991 to 1086
8. Tax and Quacks: The Policyof the Eighteenth-CenturyMedicine Stamp Duty9. Plaintive Glitterati: FamousPeople in Tax Cases; 10. Estate Duty (1965-75): TheMaking of a Modern Tax; 11. The Advancement (orRetreat?) of Religion asa Head of Charity: AHistorical Perspective; 12. Of Taxes: An Enquiryinto Dutch to BritishMalacca, 1824-39; 13. The History and Developmentof the Taxation Professionin the UK and Australia; 14. When Accountingand Law Collide: TheCurious Case of Pre-1914Dividends in Australia; 15. Taxing Bachelors inAmerica: 1895-1939; 16. Dutch Tax Reforms inthe Napoleonic Era
Summary
The overall aim of this paper is to analyse the nature of the British fiscal response to the problem of medicines promoted and puffed by a wide range of unqualified entrepreneurs who were collectively and popularly known as quacks and to identify the various social, political, and legal forces that drove it
