HOW CAN A TAX BE ‘JUST’ WHEN BASED ON A FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING, OR BOOK-KEEPING SYSTEM?

The daily papers tell the story of WHAT is happening but do not tell WHY it is so. “Farm Debt Heat Builds” : “Declarations to help growers hit by high power, water cost” : “Foreign investment in agriculture won’t make it rain money” : “Transport costs in focus”. In the 1994 postscript of “A Just Tax” Geoffrey Dobbs explained how he came to write the 1952 article for Theology a leading UK Anglican theological journal. It seems the theological world was “ransacked” for someone who had any ideas on the subject of “the just limits of taxation” – but none could be found and an approach was made to Geoffrey Dobbs.
Geoffrey writes: “It seems that then, as now, while there was any amount of passionate discussion in the churches about the distribution of the taxation levied on different classes of the community, the moral nature of taxation itself, or of the money of which it consists, was scarcely ever then, nor is it now, considered in the light of Christian theology.”