Tax Policy provides a comprehensive collection of the most important and widely-cited articles on tax politics and policy. Essays by the leading political scientists, economists and lawyers in the field cover the key intellectual dilemmas and policy issues in the field of taxation.Topics covered include: the foundations of tax policy; an exploration of the public's attitude to taxes and taxation; the principles behind the making of tax policy; tax incentives and tax expenditure; the need for tax reform in the late 1980s and the form of these changes; and the relationship between internationalization and domestic tax policy choices