Mapping Tax Justice Arguments

Tax justice debates are often framed in binary opposition between those who support lower taxes, a smaller state and greater self-sufficiency and those who support higher taxes and higher social spending. Whilst there is an element of truth to this caricature, the present volume reveals a much more complex patchwork of opinion in which it is possible to agree on some aspects of tax justice and disagree on others. This chapter presents an indicative map of these overlapping ideas whilst acknowledging that this is itself a contestable exercise in interpretation