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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 0 0 14 233
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 119
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 1 88 0 0 13 255
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 0 4 199
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 0 5 445 0 0 21 981
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 0 2 252 1 3 24 547
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 0 0 10 158
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 1 2 414 1 3 21 1,224
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 6 555 0 0 20 1,120
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 50 0 1 6 174
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 45 0 1 9 201
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 857
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 0 0 6 58 0 0 25 152
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 170 0 0 17 307
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 1 418 2 3 18 1,488
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 2 3 7 398 3 6 23 2,177
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 1 162 0 0 11 761
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 3 4 10 233 4 6 26 626
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 175 0 2 14 419
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes? 0 0 1 146 0 1 8 310
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 1 1 8 736
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 1 150 0 3 26 266
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 2 133 2 5 16 295
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 1 1 3 597 2 3 25 1,614
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 3 370 1 4 17 1,438
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 0 5 156 0 1 16 382
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 0 10 188
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 1 1 6 153 3 4 25 295
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 0 1 20 52
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 27 0 0 5 90
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 0 2 13 860 0 4 39 2,988
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 0 119 0 0 8 686
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 0 125 0 0 16 287
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 3 263 2 4 29 675
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 1 1 3 62 1 3 21 167
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 2 116 2 4 23 295
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 0 4 127 1 2 39 459
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 0 5 30 2 3 27 76
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 1 2 7 581 1 6 32 1,692
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 80 0 0 9 191
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 1 1 8 0 1 42 72
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 1 213 2 2 9 665
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 2 38 0 1 14 116
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 1 361 0 5 20 1,073
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 72 1 1 34 255
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 0 11 406
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 1 140 1 1 22 339
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 0 0 12 303
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 67 0 0 17 200
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 0 2 77 0 4 15 211
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 0 4 258 1 2 30 583
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 1 51 3 5 17 144
Tax Assignment Revisited 1 1 3 221 3 5 33 623
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 1 2 21 712
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 1 14 483
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 0 7 508
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 1 2 29 234
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 0 2 191
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 0 0 239 0 1 15 554
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 0 9 1 1 8 30
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 0 33 1 2 9 91
Taxation and Development 0 1 5 57 0 2 20 144
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research? 0 0 1 322 1 1 16 394
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 1 1 22 246
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 1 1 15 170
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 0 7 38
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 6 61
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 2 91 1 2 25 201
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 1 125 0 0 12 967
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 97 1 1 8 277
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 3 122 1 3 13 496
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 2 315 2 3 19 1,006
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 3 250 1 3 13 513
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 6 91 1 2 46 336
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 1 50 0 0 5 110
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 2 6 201 0 5 49 352
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 2 77 3 4 22 258
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 1 80 0 2 20 135
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 0 7 389
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 0 1 13 134
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 2 229 1 1 23 1,032
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 3 296 2 2 16 630
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 0 173 1 1 13 418
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 1 1 234 2 3 11 548
Total Working Papers 10 23 164 14,002 63 149 1,485 41,828
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 1 96 0 1 4 194
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 1 4 137 2 4 26 456
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 1 81 1 1 15 179
Are global taxes feasible? 0 0 4 31 1 3 26 148
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 0 7 426
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 5 9 158 0 6 22 448
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 0 27 0 1 7 83
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 0 20 0 0 6 73
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 8
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 0 0 3 191 1 2 20 509
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 1 5 194 2 3 22 583
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 2 22 0 0 11 134
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 0 0 5 54
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 0 1 6 272
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 1 1 7 0 1 7 28
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 23
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 0 0 13 93
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 1 2 11 46 2 6 69 191
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 28
Income Distribution and Tax Policy in Colombia 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 427
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 1 1 96 0 2 5 262
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 1 2 34 443 6 11 103 923
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 0 14 0 0 3 128
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 38
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 16 1 6 19 75
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 1 6 32 2 5 27 115
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 3 3 7 70
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 81
Mathew, E. T., Agricultural Taxation and Economic Development in India, London, Asia Publishing House, 1968, 204 pp. ($7.50) 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 20
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 1 18 0 1 12 60
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 1 2 11 190
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 0 1 6 37
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 0 0 7 54
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 0 12 0 1 5 52
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 1 9 48 800 4 20 220 2,501
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 5
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 0 17 0 1 12 84
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 1 5 31 3 5 23 124
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 9 115 2 4 41 375
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 4 209 0 3 20 677
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 26
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 1 5 278 1 3 32 860
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 0 0 8 131
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 0 0 12 147 1 6 32 366
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 0 12 99 0 2 35 329
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 0 75 0 1 14 185
Taxation and Development 0 0 1 122 0 0 16 317
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 0 20 0 0 5 116
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 0 24 0 0 2 146
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 1 2 9 75
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 3 490 2 4 17 1,180
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 1 3 14 113 2 9 79 437
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 2 5 13 50
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 1 43 0 1 23 355
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 0 1 18 66
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 1 5 58 0 1 22 192
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 2 2 11 302
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 0 8 228
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 0 11 1 1 5 39
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 39
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 0 1 3 152 2 4 15 401
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 1 1 53 0 2 14 155
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 1 166 1 1 7 406
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 18
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 0 10 148
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 1 2 5 285 2 7 37 868
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 3 75 0 2 27 208
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 12 0 0 13 50
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 0 11 52 2,299
Total Journal Articles 5 33 221 5,592 49 166 1,362 20,238


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 2 9 82 346 7 23 238 947
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 1 13 0 0 9 62
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 0 3 60 0 1 26 170
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 8 16 57 2,353
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 3 17 452
Total Books 2 9 86 419 17 43 347 3,984


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 1 23 1 3 9 66
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 16
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 0 3 34 0 1 17 153
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 1 9 41 0 3 32 130
Introduction and Overview 1 5 12 111 1 7 27 188
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 2 9 2 3 13 25
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 1 5 53
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 2 14 137 0 5 53 379
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 2 7 1 2 8 49
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 1 6 47
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 20 0 0 7 49
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 2 10 39
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 0 0 4 77
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 1 5 0 0 4 41
Reforming Property Taxes 0 2 10 51 0 3 25 94
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 0 2 47 0 1 7 96
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 1 3 51 0 1 14 152
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 0 1 10 1,647
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 10 0 0 10 47
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 1 3 21 1 2 40 99
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 2 2 6 36
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 25 2 2 20 124
Total Chapters 1 13 65 933 10 40 337 3,613


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