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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 1 3 14 233
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 1 1 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 2 3 14 255
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 1 1 5 199
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 1 6 444 2 8 24 979
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 1 4 252 2 7 31 543
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 1 2 10 156
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 1 1 413 2 5 20 1,219
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 8 555 0 5 23 1,118
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 45 1 1 9 200
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 50 1 4 7 173
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 856
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 1 3 7 58 4 9 27 151
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 1 2 170 1 7 19 307
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 2 418 3 5 19 1,481
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 1 2 393 2 4 13 2,165
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 1 162 0 1 12 761
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 2 8 228 1 7 45 618
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 1 175 3 5 15 417
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes? 0 0 1 146 3 4 10 308
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 1 3 7 735
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 1 150 6 10 24 263
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 4 131 1 3 19 288
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 0 3 595 3 8 22 1,605
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 3 370 2 5 15 1,434
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 1 5 156 1 3 16 381
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 2 3 11 188
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 1 4 151 4 8 22 289
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 2 8 19 48
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 1 2 27 2 3 9 90
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 2 4 17 855 6 10 50 2,977
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 1 119 3 4 10 686
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 0 125 1 5 16 286
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 4 263 2 7 25 669
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 4 60 3 5 19 155
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 3 116 5 7 21 288
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 3 9 126 5 19 52 453
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 2 3 7 29 5 7 28 71
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 1 7 578 4 10 35 1,680
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 1 1 1 80 2 3 9 190
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 0 3 52 71
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 1 1 2 213 3 4 12 663
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 3 38 1 3 14 113
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 3 4 9 404
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 360 2 4 21 1,066
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 72 3 14 31 250
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 6 11 19 334
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 1 2 12 302
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 2 3 14 197
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 1 1 3 77 1 2 12 207
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 2 2 5 257 6 9 31 577
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 1 1 1 51 6 8 11 138
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 1 2 220 12 14 28 617
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 3 4 15 480
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 4 8 25 708
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 1 9 508
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 6 13 27 232
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 1 2 191
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 0 0 239 1 3 19 552
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 1 9 2 3 6 27
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 33 1 3 7 86
Taxation and Development 2 3 7 56 6 9 28 141
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research? 0 0 1 322 3 9 19 393
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 1 5 17 169
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 2 6 19 243
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 2 2 7 37
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 2 4 6 61
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 4 90 3 5 22 191
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 1 125 4 7 13 967
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 96 2 3 7 275
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 3 121 0 1 10 491
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 1 2 2 249 1 2 14 510
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 1 1 2 315 5 6 16 1,003
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 1 2 4 89 6 15 56 323
The Personal Income Tax 1 1 2 50 4 4 8 110
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 1 1 10 198 8 18 56 342
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 1 3 77 5 7 23 251
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 0 79 7 9 17 131
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 2 5 387
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 1 2 11 132
Urban governance and finance in India 0 1 1 228 3 12 26 1,028
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 1 2 294 5 7 14 626
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 173 3 6 13 415
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 2 233 0 0 17 544
Total Working Papers 18 44 191 13,951 228 472 1,553 41,527
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 1 96 0 0 8 193
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 1 3 136 5 11 30 450
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 1 1 1 81 4 5 11 175
Are global taxes feasible? 0 2 5 30 1 4 24 142
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 2 2 8 426
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 4 152 1 4 18 439
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 27 1 2 5 80
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 0 20 2 2 6 73
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 6
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 1 2 8 191 4 6 28 504
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 1 1 2 191 3 5 16 576
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 3 22 2 2 17 133
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 2 2 4 53
Editorial 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 7
Editorial 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 11
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 2 2 5 271
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 0 6 2 2 7 27
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 1 6 0 0 4 22
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 5 5 12 92
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 2 3 9 41 7 22 68 179
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 26
Income Distribution and Tax Policy in Colombia 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 427
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 0 1 95 1 1 4 260
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 3 7 30 434 12 25 97 897
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 3 3 5 128
Introduction 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 38
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 16 2 4 12 67
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 1 4 30 6 10 24 108
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 0 0 5 67
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 80
Mathew, E. T., Agricultural Taxation and Economic Development in India, London, Asia Publishing House, 1968, 204 pp. ($7.50) 0 0 1 3 2 2 5 19
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 1 18 1 2 13 59
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 1 3 10 188
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 2 2 3 34
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 3 3 7 54
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 1 12 2 3 6 51
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 6 17 71 786 26 70 296 2,456
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 1 1 1 1 2 2 4 4
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 17 2 4 12 82
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 3 3 5 30 5 7 17 115
Smart Tax Administration 0 2 11 113 4 12 54 366
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 4 207 3 5 19 670
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 26
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 1 4 4 277 6 13 27 853
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 1 2 7 130
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 1 1 15 143 3 7 36 355
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 2 4 14 97 6 11 41 318
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 75 3 5 15 183
Taxation and Development 1 1 1 122 3 5 20 317
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 2 2 5 116
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 0 24 1 1 5 146
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 1 1 9 72
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 1 3 490 1 4 14 1,174
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 0 1 11 106 5 24 76 414
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 2 2 9 45
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 3 43 5 7 20 350
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 3 6 18 63
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 0 6 57 5 6 24 188
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 6 7 10 300
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 1 1 8 227
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 0 11 1 1 3 37
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 39
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 2 2 2 151 4 5 12 397
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 0 0 6 147
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 1 166 0 1 6 405
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 15
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 3 4 9 147
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 0 4 283 5 8 41 855
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 1 72 2 4 26 198
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 1 1 12 1 6 14 50
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 3 10 56 2,279
Total Journal Articles 26 56 240 5,521 209 397 1,418 19,901


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 10 22 73 324 22 66 200 878
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 1 1 13 0 2 8 61
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 1 2 3 59 3 9 28 166
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 6 15 115 2,323
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 4 6 18 446
Total Books 11 25 77 396 35 98 369 3,874


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 2 23 2 2 8 62
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 4 4 7 15
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 1 4 33 5 8 18 151
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 2 5 8 40 6 11 30 123
Introduction and Overview 2 3 17 103 3 7 28 174
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 2 8 1 1 11 19
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 1 1 5 52
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 4 16 133 9 20 65 369
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 1 2 2 7 2 4 7 47
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 1 2 5 46
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 19 3 4 9 47
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 1 2 9 37
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 0 1 5 77
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 1 5 1 1 5 41
Reforming Property Taxes 1 2 7 46 4 8 20 87
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 1 3 46 1 3 8 94
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 1 2 3 50 4 5 18 151
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 4 4 8 1,645
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 10 3 3 10 47
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 2 4 20 5 10 43 97
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 1 1 5 34
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 6
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 1 1 25 2 9 20 122
Total Chapters 8 23 72 909 66 114 348 3,543


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