A Journey Through European and International Taxationis a widely ranging festschrift in which thirty-six prominent tax scholars from all across Europe examine the legacy of the renowned tax scholar Peter Essers’ research interests from the more prominent philosophical, political, and social factors driving tax history to the reality of the taxing State as experienced by taxpayers and tax officials. To some extent, because of his overlapping careers in academia and politics, Peter Essers is known for his influential insight that ‘the effects of taxation on the political balance of power, and vice versa, are always interlinked with other phenomena, such as wars, crises, religious developments and inequalities in society’.
