A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

  The tax code works for no one, and so we rip it up and rewrite it every 32 years. The next rewrite is due in 2018 — and this time we can write a code that is simple and fair by learning from other wealthy democracies like New Zealand or the United Kingdom. In A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System (Penguin Press), Reid travels the world to find out what makes for good taxation and brings it back to the U.S.