Tax and Regulations Compliance

Marina Guzik

Chapter Chapter 33 in CFO Techniques, 2011, pp 279-284 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In his letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy (November 13, 1789), Renaissance man and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, with his characteristic wry wit, formulated one of the undeniable truths of human existence: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Ever since the Egyptians introduced the biennial tax over 5,000 years ago, rulers and governments have been collecting a variety of levies from their subjects and citizens, generating income that sustains the state. Originally, people conducting any sort of business paid appropriate dues as individual taxpayers. The concept of the corporation as an entity that can survive its individual members and thus maintain a going concern indefinitely was formulated in ancient Rome. Since those times, such enterprises have been considered legitimate taxpayers.

Keywords: Regulation Compliance; Business Taxation; Taxation Information; Individual Taxpayer; Undeniable Truth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4302-3757-0_33

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781430237570

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4302-3757-0_33

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().