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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 0 1 4 219
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 115
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 1 3 87 0 1 6 241
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 0 1 194
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 2 6 439 1 4 12 958
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 1 1 3 157 2 2 6 293
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 0 5 248 1 3 10 515
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 2 71 0 2 9 146
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 0 412 1 2 4 1,201
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 3 547 0 3 11 1,096
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 1 1 1 50 1 2 4 167
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 44 0 0 1 191
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 853
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 1 1 3 52 2 5 8 126
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 1 1 169 0 1 5 289
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 2 7 417 1 6 24 1,467
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 1 2 391 0 1 6 2,152
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 0 0 1 168 1 2 9 424
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 161 1 1 2 750
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 1 1 3 221 9 10 24 583
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 1 2 175 0 1 6 403
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 0 3 728
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 3 7 149 0 4 10 239
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 0 127 1 1 3 270
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 1 3 592 0 5 17 1,584
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 4 367 0 1 10 1,420
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 0 0 1 136 0 0 4 327
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 0 5 151 0 0 11 365
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 1 2 178
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 0 3 147 0 2 8 269
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 29
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 25 0 0 5 81
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 2 8 17 844 7 17 47 2,939
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 0 118 0 1 1 677
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 1 2 125 0 2 3 270
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 1 4 260 0 2 7 646
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 1 1 4 57 5 6 22 142
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 1 3 113 0 3 9 269
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 3 6 118 4 11 29 409
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 2 7 23 0 3 20 44
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 2 5 573 1 7 26 1,651
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 1 3 79 0 1 4 181
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 1 7 9 9 10 28
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 1 1 5 212 1 1 7 652
Smart Tax Administration 1 1 1 36 1 3 12 101
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 3 360 2 8 16 1,050
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 70 0 0 4 219
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 0 2 395
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 0 1 4 316
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 0 0 4 183
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 290
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 1 2 4 75 1 2 6 196
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 0 5 252 1 3 17 548
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 0 0 2 127
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 0 2 218 0 1 5 590
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 1 252 1 3 10 686
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 1 1 2 466
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 0 8 499
Tax Evasion, the Provision of Public Infrastructure, and Growth: A General Equilibrium Approach to Two Very Different Countries, Egypt and Mauritius 0 0 0 91 0 0 1 205
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 0 1 189
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 0 3 239 0 6 11 537
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 1 1 9 0 1 2 22
Taxation and Decentralization 0 1 1 32 0 2 4 80
Taxation and Development 0 3 5 52 3 8 15 121
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 147 0 0 6 224
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 48 1 3 8 154
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 30
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 55
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 2 3 5 88 2 6 16 173
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 1 2 124 0 1 3 954
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 1 1 96 0 3 3 269
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 1 118 0 1 6 482
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 313 0 1 4 987
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 1 247 1 2 6 497
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 2 5 85 1 3 13 268
The Personal Income Tax 1 1 2 49 1 1 8 103
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 1 3 6 191 4 11 22 294
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 3 74 2 3 9 230
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 1 79 1 1 5 115
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 0 1 3 121
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 0 0 382
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 2 227 1 10 19 1,008
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 1 1 293 0 1 3 613
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 1 2 173 0 1 5 403
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 1 2 5 233 2 7 18 533
Total Working Papers 15 62 190 13,793 74 219 699 40,496
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 2 95 0 3 6 188
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 0 5 133 3 3 19 423
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 0 0 1 164
Are global taxes feasible? 1 1 2 26 1 1 8 119
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 0 2 418
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 4 148 0 0 4 421
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 26 0 0 3 75
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 1 20 0 0 3 67
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 0 2 8 185 1 7 27 481
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 0 2 189 0 0 7 560
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 116
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 49
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 0 0 2 266
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 1 2 6 0 2 5 20
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 18
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 80
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 1 1 8 33 2 2 20 113
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 25
Income Distribution and Tax Policy in Colombia 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 424
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 0 1 94 0 0 2 256
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 0 3 19 404 2 13 48 808
International Aspects of the Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (Aspects internationaux de l'imposition des sociétés et des actionnaires) (Aspectos internacionales de la tributación de sociedades y accionistas) 0 0 1 14 0 1 3 124
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 37
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 15 0 0 2 55
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 1 3 26 0 4 15 87
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 62
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 71
Mathew, E. T., Agricultural Taxation and Economic Development in India, London, Asia Publishing House, 1968, 204 pp. ($7.50) 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 14
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 1 3 17 1 3 8 47
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 1 1 2 179
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 31
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 47
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 45
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 7 27 81 732 28 79 247 2,213
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 1 1 17 0 1 3 71
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 0 3 25 0 1 10 98
Smart Tax Administration 0 4 12 104 3 15 37 324
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 5 204 1 3 11 654
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 24
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 6 273 0 1 11 827
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 123
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 1 7 10 133 3 11 20 327
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 3 5 84 4 9 18 284
Taxation and Decentralization 1 1 1 74 1 1 4 169
Taxation and Development 0 0 2 121 0 1 6 298
Taxation and Income Distribution in Latin America: A Critical Review of Empirical Studies (Fiscalité et redistribution des revenus en Amérique latine: une revue critique de quelques études empiriques) (La tributación y la distribución del ingreso en América Latina: un examen crítico de los estudios empíricos) 0 0 2 20 0 0 2 111
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 1 24 0 1 3 142
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 1 2 3 65
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 2 487 0 1 5 1,161
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 2 6 13 98 5 18 53 348
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 2 9 0 0 3 36
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 1 40 0 0 3 330
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 46
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 2 8 52 1 3 15 166
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 290
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 1 1 4 220
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 2 11 0 0 3 34
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 0 0 0 149 0 1 3 385
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 0 0 1 141
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 0 165 0 0 2 399
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 138
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 0 4 279 3 6 32 818
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 1 5 72 1 9 24 178
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 2 11 0 1 3 37
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 1 8 58 2,230
Total Journal Articles 13 63 232 5,318 65 216 785 18,634


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 0 9 35 253 3 15 89 683
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 53
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 1 1 56 1 5 9 141
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 7 26 433
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 23 98 277 2,266
Total Books 0 10 36 321 29 126 403 3,576


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 1 2 2 22 2 3 5 56
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 1 5 30 0 2 9 135
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 2 2 32 1 3 9 94
Introduction and Overview 1 1 12 87 1 1 20 147
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 3 6 0 1 5 9
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 2 22 0 0 3 47
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 3 18 119 4 13 43 313
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 40
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 41
Property Taxes in Mexico 1 1 1 19 1 1 1 39
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 28
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 1 19 0 0 2 72
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 36
Reforming Property Taxes 0 1 2 39 0 1 2 67
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 1 3 44 0 2 5 87
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 0 3 47 0 3 7 135
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 4 283 0 0 9 1,637
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 9 0 1 6 37
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 1 2 2 18 2 4 8 57
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 1 7 29
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 24 0 0 4 102
Total Chapters 4 14 62 846 11 36 151 3,218


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