Thursday September 21 at 10.00 - 11.30
Score, Frescativägen 14 A, Stockholm University
Lotta Björklund Larsen, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Thematic Studies -Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, will present the book
Shaping taxpayers. Values in action at the Swedish Tax Agency.
How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden’s most esteemed bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project’s passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to its final abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.
Find out more about Lotta Björklund Larsen: https://www.tema.liu.se/tema-t/medarbetare/bjorklund-larsen-lotta?l=sv
