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The Tax Facts of Life

We look at the surprisingly fascinating business of designing a tax system from scratch. What would you include and what would you leave out? Is complexity the cost for fairness?

We look at the surprisingly fascinating business of creating a tax system from scratch. The director of the UK's Office for Tax Simplification, John Whiting, tells us that complexity may be the price of fairness. Kryticous Nshindano from Actionaid in Zambia explains why there's no one-size-fits-all tax system, and we hear why collecting tax in India is a particularly thankless task.

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Wed 28 Aug 2013 07:32GMT

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  • Wed 28 Aug 2013 07:32GMT

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