1. John Locke: Property, Tax and the Private Sphere John Snape and Jane Frecknall-Hughes2. The Birth of Tax as a Legal Discipline Hans Gribnau and Henk Vording3. The Curious Case of Mr Trull Sir John Baker4. The Architecture of Tax Administration: Function or Form? Chantal Stebbings5. Let Them Pay For Their Starvation: The Imposition of Income Tax on Ireland in 1853 Peter Clarke6. Not Like Grocers Richard Thomas7. The Life and Times of ESCs: A Defence? Stephen Daly8. The Special Contribution of 1948John HN Pearce9. The Profits Tax GAAR: An Aid in the ‘Hopeless’ Defence Against the Dark Arts Peter Harris10. Statutory Interpretation in Early Capital Gains Tax Cases Philip Ridd11. The UK’s Early Tax Treaties with European Countries John F Avery Jones12. The ‘Great Powers’ and the Development of the 1928 Model Tax Treaties Sunita Jogarajan13. The UK’s Tax Treaties with Developing Countries during the 1970s Martin Hearson14. From Wartime Expedient to Enduring Element of Fiscal Federalism: Centralised Income Taxation in Australia since World War II Richard Krever and Peter Mellor15. The Historical Meaning of ‘Income’ in New Zealand Taxation Statutes, Cases and Administration, 1891–1925 Shelley Griffiths16. When Minerals are not Enough: The Origins of Income Taxation in Chile and their Importance to the Current Situation Maximiliano Boada17. Cesses in the Indian Tax Regime: A Historical Analysis Ashrita Kotha18. The State Salt Monopoly in China: Ancient Origins and Modern Implications Yan Xu

Essays by leading tax law scholars illustrating a wide variety and depth of learning on tax history.The books in this series bring together the papers from the Annual Cambridge Tax Law History Conference which are revised and reviewed for publication.There is a doctoral-led tax group at the University of Cambridge that meets weekly during term-time, and which welcomes a wide range of guest speakers. Anybody interested in its activities should contact May Hen (hmh46@cam.ac.uk).