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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 2 64 1 3 6 218
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 115
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 2 86 2 2 5 240
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 1 1 1 194
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 2 2 4 436 3 5 10 952
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 0 0 2 156 2 2 5 291
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 1 1 4 247 1 1 7 511
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 3 71 1 4 8 144
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 2 412 0 0 7 1,198
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 1 2 546 0 2 11 1,092
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 44 1 1 1 191
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 164
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 853
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 0 0 3 51 0 0 5 121
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 0 168 2 2 5 288
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 1 3 9 415 3 5 25 1,459
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 1 1 390 0 1 3 2,149
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 1 1 2 168 2 2 11 420
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 161 1 1 1 749
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 0 2 219 1 1 18 570
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 1 1 174 1 3 5 402
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 1 5 728
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 1 9 146 1 2 17 235
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 0 127 0 0 4 269
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 1 3 591 0 4 12 1,574
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 4 6 367 1 5 16 1,418
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 0 0 2 136 1 1 6 327
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 4 5 151 0 10 11 365
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 1 77 0 0 2 176
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 2 4 147 0 4 8 267
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 0 2 5 27
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 25 1 1 5 80
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 3 20 836 3 6 57 2,920
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 0 118 0 0 1 676
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 1 124 0 0 2 268
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 1 5 258 0 1 8 642
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 1 1 3 55 2 7 16 134
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 4 112 0 2 10 266
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 1 1 7 115 4 7 27 395
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 0 4 20 1 3 19 38
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 2 4 571 0 7 24 1,642
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 1 2 78 0 1 4 180
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 1 7 0 0 3 19
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 2 5 211 0 2 9 651
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 1 35 0 1 14 98
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 1 4 395
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 359 1 1 10 1,041
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 1 1 2 70 2 3 5 219
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 2 139 0 2 7 315
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 66 1 1 5 183
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 133 0 0 3 290
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 0 3 73 1 1 5 194
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 1 2 5 251 2 4 20 543
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 0 1 2 127
Tax Assignment Revisited 1 1 2 218 1 1 6 589
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 0 2 465
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 1 252 1 1 9 683
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 1 91 1 1 3 205
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 1 1 189
Tax challenges facing developing countries 1 2 4 239 1 2 8 531
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 21
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 0 31 1 1 2 78
Taxation and Development 0 1 2 49 2 5 9 113
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 147 1 2 6 224
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 48 1 2 4 150
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 30
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 55
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 1 3 85 0 4 12 167
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 1 1 1 123 1 2 4 953
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 266
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 1 1 1 118 1 3 6 480
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 0 246 0 2 5 494
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 1 1 1 313 1 1 4 985
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 1 3 83 0 2 10 263
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 3 48 0 2 8 101
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 1 6 187 0 6 18 282
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 4 74 3 3 13 227
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 1 79 2 2 5 114
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 0 1 2 120
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 0 1 382
Urban governance and finance in India 0 1 2 227 0 2 26 997
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 1 292 0 0 3 612
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 1 1 1 172 2 4 7 402
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 1 5 230 0 1 16 523
Total Working Papers 16 49 187 13,721 64 170 685 40,223
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 1 3 95 0 1 4 185
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 3 3 6 132 8 10 16 416
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 1 1 1 164
Are global taxes feasible? 1 1 1 25 1 2 8 116
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 1 2 418
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 2 5 148 0 2 6 421
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 26 1 2 4 75
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 0 19 0 1 3 66
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 1 2 7 183 2 5 20 470
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 1 1 188 0 2 10 559
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 1 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 1 2 266
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 1 5 0 1 4 18
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 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 6 31 4 5 18 109
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 1 2 256
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 2 4 20 400 5 11 39 790
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 0 2 123
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 37
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 54
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 1 5 25 2 5 17 83
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 0 2 16 2 3 6 44
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 1 71 0 0 2 178
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 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 45
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 5 18 66 700 24 74 202 2,111
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 69
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 1 5 25 0 2 12 96
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 8 98 3 6 22 304
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 3 202 2 3 10 649
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 23
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 1 2 8 273 2 3 13 826
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 1 5 126 1 1 11 316
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 0 4 81 1 1 10 273
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 0 73 2 2 3 168
Taxation and Development 0 0 3 121 1 1 6 297
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) 1 1 3 20 1 1 4 111
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 1 24 1 1 2 141
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 1 1 1 63
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 3 487 2 2 7 1,160
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 0 1 9 92 5 18 52 330
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 2 9 1 1 4 36
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 2 40 1 1 4 330
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 1 8 0 0 3 45
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 1 8 50 2 4 13 162
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 289
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 1 105 1 2 4 219
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 1 1 3 11 1 1 4 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 0 3 383
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 0 1 3 141
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 0 165 1 1 2 399
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 138
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 1 15 279 1 7 55 810
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 2 8 71 0 6 24 168
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 10 0 0 2 35
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 5 13 81 2,217
Total Journal Articles 17 46 222 5,240 88 214 738 18,352


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 5 9 30 240 7 22 80 656
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 1 12 0 0 2 52
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 0 1 55 2 2 6 136
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 1 6 27 422
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 28 62 263 2,141
Total Books 5 9 32 307 38 92 378 3,407


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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 1 20 1 1 6 52
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 0 4 29 1 1 10 133
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 0 0 30 0 1 7 90
Introduction and Overview 0 5 14 86 3 9 24 146
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 3 6 1 1 4 8
Land Taxes in Colombia 1 1 3 22 1 1 4 47
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 3 8 20 115 4 14 39 295
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 1 5 0 0 4 40
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 41
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 38
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 28
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 1 1 19 0 1 2 72
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 36
Reforming Property Taxes 0 1 6 38 0 1 7 66
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 0 3 43 0 0 5 85
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 1 2 4 47 1 2 6 132
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 1 2 5 283 1 3 12 1,637
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 1 1 9 1 2 4 35
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 0 0 16 0 1 4 52
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 25
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 1 6 102
Total Chapters 6 21 67 831 15 42 155 3,170


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