Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Book -- Chapter 1: Exchanges Create Relations -- Defining Taxation -- Reciprocity -- Why Sweden? -- Understanding the Relationship between Society and Tax -- Fieldwork: Ethnography of Swedes' Views on Taxation -- Research on Why We Pay Tax -- Anthropology of Economic Exchanges and Reciprocity -- Reciprocity Proliferating -- To See Tax as a Gift-Or? -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter 2: Taxpayers' Relation to Their State -- Taxes in Terms of Reciprocity Cannot Be Measured -- The Agency's View on Why Taxpayers Comply -- Fairness in Tax Collection -- Who Is the Taxpayer? -- A Contemporary View of Taxpayers at the Agency -- Getting Value for 'Tax' Money -- Unfairly Treated by Society -- Balancing a Fair Deal with the State -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter 3: Taxpayer to Taxpayer Relation -- The Agency's View -- Barter -- Taxpayer Views on Barter -- Business and Private Life -- An Example: Horse Trotting -- Business and Private Life Continued -- Informalizing the Formal -- Formalizing the Informal: Share Economy -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Tensions between Paying and Receiving -- Being Magister -- Progressive Marginal Tax -- Pillars of Society -- Balance Artists -- Contributive and Distributive Balancing -- Not Paying for Those Who Do Not Pay -- A Fair Society -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Making Tax Compliant -- Taxation Is a Total Social Phenomenon -- Balance Outstanding -- Fair Share-All Need to Contribute -- Literature -- Index.

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