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Human Rights in the Field of Taxation: A View from Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2017

Roger Persson-Österman
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Sweden is well known as a high tax society and it is also well known for its spending on welfare. Just over 50 percent of GDP is consumed by taxation. This is an enormous amount of money. How is it possible to avoid strong conflicts between the citizen and the state? Must not this huge appetite for funding tempt the democratic state to pass the borderline and become almost a despotic state? How are human rights protected?

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Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , Volume 2 , 1999 , pp. 439 - 462
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Copyright © Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge 1999

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