Designing a tax system requires substantial thought and assessment. Criticism based on a few selected statistics can overlook the practical knowledge needed to understand that work. A book of British historical statistics is praised as useful, while its numbers are considered meaningless without wider reading. Roughly a dozen other books are suggested as the context needed to interpret those tables.
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Why tax statistics need wider historical reading
Tax-system claims and historical statistics require wider reading beyond a table of headline figures.