The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
The Swedes were the first to recognize that public official like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
And indeed, why should a baker or a shoemaker or an entrepreneur or a farmer entertain less lofty views of their own calling than a tax inspector or a town hall secretary or a prime minister?
Since the rich are deferring on all these assets and have hired tax lawyers to make sure that it stays complicated and they're less likely to get audited, who is paying tax?