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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 0 0 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 0 3 87 0 0 6 241
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 1 1 2 195
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 1 7 440 1 3 14 960
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 0 1 3 157 0 2 6 293
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 1 2 7 250 4 9 18 523
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 2 71 0 0 9 146
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 0 412 0 1 4 1,201
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 2 2 5 549 3 3 14 1,099
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 44 0 0 1 191
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 1 1 50 0 1 4 167
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 0 1 2 52 0 3 8 127
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 169 0 0 5 289
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 6 417 2 4 24 1,470
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 0 2 391 0 0 6 2,152
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 0 0 1 168 1 2 10 425
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 161 0 1 2 750
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 2 4 222 7 24 37 598
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 2 175 0 2 8 405
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 0 3 728
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 6 149 0 0 8 239
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 3 3 3 130 7 8 10 277
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 1 4 593 1 2 18 1,586
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 4 367 1 1 10 1,421
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 0 0 1 136 0 0 3 327
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 0 2 178
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 0 3 147 0 0 7 269
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 1 1 5 30
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 25 0 1 4 82
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 4 16 846 1 13 44 2,945
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 1 1 1 119 1 1 2 678
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 2 125 1 1 4 271
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 4 260 0 0 7 646
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 1 3 5 59 2 8 19 145
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 1 3 114 0 1 9 270
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 2 7 120 3 10 33 415
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 1 6 24 1 3 19 47
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 1 6 574 3 7 29 1,657
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 3 79 0 0 4 181
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 1 10 10 29
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 1 4 212 2 3 7 654
Smart Tax Administration 0 1 1 36 0 1 10 101
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 0 2 395
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 2 71 1 2 6 221
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 360 1 3 14 1,051
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 0 0 4 316
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 290
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 0 0 3 183
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 1 3 75 0 1 4 196
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 1 2 6 254 1 3 16 550
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 0 0 2 127
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 0 2 218 0 0 3 590
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 1 252 0 5 14 690
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 2 3 467
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 1 2 6 501
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 2 239 1 1 10 538
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 1 9 0 0 2 22
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 1 32 0 0 4 80
Taxation and Development 0 0 5 52 2 5 17 123
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 48 1 2 8 155
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 0 0 4 224
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 31
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 55
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 3 5 89 1 5 18 176
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 2 124 0 0 3 954
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 96 0 0 3 269
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 1 118 0 0 5 482
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 247 2 4 9 500
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 313 0 0 4 987
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 4 85 20 22 30 289
The Personal Income Tax 0 1 2 49 0 2 9 104
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 2 4 8 194 3 10 27 300
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 1 3 75 1 5 11 233
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 1 79 0 1 5 115
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 0 0 3 121
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 0 0 382
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 1 227 0 2 15 1,009
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 1 293 1 1 4 614
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 2 173 0 0 5 403
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 1 4 233 1 4 18 535
Total Working Papers 12 43 192 13,821 81 210 755 40,632
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 2 95 0 2 8 190
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 0 5 133 3 9 25 429
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 0 0 1 164
Are global taxes feasible? 0 1 2 26 2 3 9 121
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 1 3 419
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 1 1 5 149 2 5 9 426
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 1 1 2 27 1 1 4 76
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 1 20 0 0 3 67
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 1 2 8 187 2 6 30 486
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 0 2 189 0 1 7 561
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 19 0 1 1 117
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 0 1
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
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 0 2 6 0 0 5 20
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 19
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 80
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 0 2 7 34 2 5 18 116
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 1 1 1 425
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 1 1 1 95 1 1 2 257
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 0 3 17 407 2 7 45 813
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 1 1 4 125
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 0 2 26 0 1 11 88
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 0 1 1 63
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 1 1 3 0 1 1 15
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 3 17 1 2 9 48
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 0 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 1 1 2 46
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 6 18 88 743 22 74 281 2,259
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 17 0 0 3 71
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 0 2 25 0 1 8 99
Smart Tax Administration 0 1 11 105 3 8 38 329
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 6 205 1 4 14 657
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 24
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 3 273 1 1 8 828
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 0 3 11 135 3 9 24 333
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 1 5 85 1 8 18 288
Taxation and Decentralization 0 1 1 74 0 1 3 169
Taxation and Development 0 0 2 121 1 3 8 301
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 1 20 0 0 1 111
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 1 24 1 2 5 144
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 1 2 4 66
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 2 487 0 1 6 1,162
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 0 3 12 99 4 13 54 356
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 2 9 1 1 4 37
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 1 1 2 41 1 1 4 331
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 0 8 0 2 3 47
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 1 8 53 1 5 18 170
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 291
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 1 4 220
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 2 11 0 0 2 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 1 1 3 386
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 1 399
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 1 1 4 280 6 11 32 826
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 5 72 1 3 24 180
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 2 11 0 0 3 37
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 4 10 58 2,239
Total Journal Articles 12 43 233 5,348 73 215 849 18,784


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 2 6 36 259 7 17 87 697
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 53
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 1 1 2 57 2 3 11 143
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 9 50 264 2,293
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 4 22 435
Total Books 3 7 38 328 20 74 386 3,621


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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 1 2 22 1 3 6 57
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 9
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 0 4 30 0 0 7 135
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 0 2 32 1 2 8 95
Introduction and Overview 8 11 18 97 8 11 23 157
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 3 7 1 2 6 11
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 2 22 1 1 3 48
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 3 16 122 5 12 42 321
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 41
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 41
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 1 1 19 0 4 4 42
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 28
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 1 19 1 1 3 73
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 37
Reforming Property Taxes 1 2 4 41 1 2 4 69
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 1 3 45 0 1 5 88
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 1 4 48 0 3 10 138
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 3 283 0 0 6 1,637
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 9 0 0 5 37
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 1 2 18 1 3 7 58
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 1 7 30
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 24 2 2 5 104
Total Chapters 10 22 67 864 23 51 159 3,258


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