The reforms carried out by the Australian tax office in the late 1990s are of interest to all countries. These papers explore how the new system offers a better guarantee that taxes will be collected when individuals make every effort to avoid or evade them. 'This book deals in an original way with issues of fairness arising in the relationship between tax offices and taxpayers. Individual decisions to comply or not to comply with tax laws are shown not to depend solely on deterrence, but on broader sociological and psychological factors. The core concept of responsive regulation and regulatory pyramids should be noted by anyone interested in taxation issues. The contributions by a wide selection of authors from various continents, disciplines and approaches form nevertheless a coherent whole, because contributors have worked or at least spent some time at the Centre of Tax System Integrity.' Professor Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland 'This collection of essays will be of interest to all of those interested in the effectiveness of responsive regulation as a means of increasing comliance with regulatory regimes.' Public Law