Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family.

The Tax Inspector enables new insight into the meaning of fairness in the Australian tax system because it brings together the ideal of fairness with narratives of the lived reality of wealth, poverty, inequality and tax evasion, as carried in the pregnant body of the Tax Inspector, Maria. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevskys Karamozovs. The Tax Inspector Book Nook by Peter Carey DESCRIPTION The Tax Inspector is a 1991 novel by Peter Carey, published in Australia by the University of. Reading literature can help us 'discover ourselves' and our community (West Robin, 'Economic Man and Literary Woman' in Narrative, Authority and Law (U Michigan P, 1993) 251, 254). The tax inspector by Peter Carey, 1993, Vintage Books edition, in English - 1st Vintage International ed. This article explores some of the stories, or myths, of tax and fairness in Australia through a feminist reading of The Tax Inspector. Oscar and Lucinda, a Victorian fantasy inspired by Edmund Gosses 1907 classic Father and Son, secured him the coveted Booker Prize in 1988. He studied Science at Monash University, and wrote advertising. The Tax Inspector pits Maria, a heavily pregnant tax auditor, against the corrupt business of the Catchprice family, members of which are engaged in moral (and legal) crimes ranging from minor tax evasion to child sexual abuse. Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, Australia, in 1943.

In his novel The Tax Inspector, Peter Carey presents us with a peculiarly Australian tale of taxation, pervasive tax evasion and a pervasive longing for a principled fairness.

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