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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 0 6 14 232
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 3 3 118
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 2 88 1 7 13 253
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 0 4 198
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 1 7 444 0 10 23 977
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 1 1 4 252 1 12 29 541
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 0 4 11 155
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 1 1 1 413 2 8 18 1,217
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 1 8 555 1 9 25 1,118
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 1 1 45 0 4 8 199
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 50 3 3 7 172
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 855
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 2 2 6 57 3 10 26 147
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 1 2 170 2 8 18 306
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 1 3 418 0 5 17 1,478
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 1 3 393 0 5 12 2,163
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 1 162 1 6 12 761
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 3 8 228 2 11 44 617
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 1 175 1 5 12 414
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes? 0 0 1 146 1 1 7 305
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 2 4 6 734
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 4 150 3 6 22 257
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 4 131 2 4 18 287
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 0 4 595 4 7 23 1,602
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 1 3 370 2 4 13 1,432
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 2 5 156 0 5 15 380
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 1 5 9 186
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 1 4 151 1 6 18 285
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 3 10 17 46
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 1 1 2 27 1 3 7 88
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 3 17 853 2 7 49 2,971
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 1 119 1 4 7 683
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 1 125 0 7 17 285
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 1 4 263 4 11 23 667
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 4 60 0 4 16 152
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 4 116 1 5 17 283
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 3 3 11 126 6 22 50 448
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 1 6 27 0 8 25 66
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 1 7 578 0 8 32 1,676
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 79 0 5 8 188
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 1 18 52 71
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 1 212 0 2 9 660
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 3 38 2 4 14 112
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 72 4 20 28 247
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 360 1 5 22 1,064
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 1 3 6 401
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 2 6 13 328
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 0 7 12 195
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 0 3 11 301
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 0 3 76 1 4 12 206
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 0 3 255 0 7 26 571
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 1 2 5 132
Tax Assignment Revisited 1 1 2 220 1 8 16 605
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 2 8 21 704
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 3 12 477
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 3 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 3 12 21 226
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 2 8 20 551
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 1 9 1 2 4 25
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 33 0 3 7 85
Taxation and Development 1 1 5 54 1 4 22 135
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research? 0 0 1 322 4 9 17 390
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 3 11 17 241
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 2 11 17 168
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 3 5 35
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 4 4 59
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 5 90 0 5 21 188
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 2 125 1 4 10 963
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 96 1 3 7 273
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 3 121 1 3 10 491
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 1 1 2 248 1 5 14 509
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 314 1 5 12 998
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 1 1 5 88 5 14 52 317
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 1 49 0 0 4 106
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 0 9 197 3 15 51 334
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 1 1 3 77 1 5 19 246
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 0 79 1 7 10 124
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 3 5 387
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 1 2 11 131
Urban governance and finance in India 1 1 1 228 5 11 27 1,025
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 1 2 294 1 6 9 621
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 173 0 6 10 412
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 2 233 0 1 18 544
Total Working Papers 15 34 196 13,933 105 520 1,391 41,299
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 1 1 96 0 2 8 193
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 1 3 136 0 9 25 445
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 0 4 7 171
Are global taxes feasible? 2 3 5 30 2 12 23 141
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 4 6 424
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 4 152 2 7 17 438
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 27 1 3 4 79
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 0 20 0 4 4 71
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 5
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 1 1 7 190 2 6 26 500
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 0 1 190 1 5 13 573
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 3 22 0 1 15 131
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 0 0 2 51
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 5
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 0 2 3 269
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 1 6 0 1 7 25
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 1 6 0 1 4 22
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 0 4 7 87
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 1 1 7 39 5 30 61 172
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 0 0 1 425
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 0 1 95 0 1 3 259
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 3 6 30 431 6 22 90 885
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 2 125
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 37
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 16 1 6 10 65
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 2 4 29 3 10 19 102
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 0 2 5 67
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 79
Mathew, E. T., Agricultural Taxation and Economic Development in India, London, Asia Publishing House, 1968, 204 pp. ($7.50) 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 17
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 1 2 18 1 6 14 58
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 0 5 9 187
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 32
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 0 1 4 51
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 1 12 1 1 4 49
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 6 15 75 780 17 66 296 2,430
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 17 1 4 10 80
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 0 2 27 1 4 13 110
Smart Tax Administration 0 3 13 113 2 16 53 362
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 4 207 0 5 16 667
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 25
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 1 3 3 276 5 10 21 847
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 0 2 6 129
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 0 1 16 142 0 7 36 352
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 2 3 14 95 5 9 37 312
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 75 0 6 12 180
Taxation and Development 0 0 0 121 2 9 17 314
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 1 3 114
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 0 24 0 1 4 145
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 0 1 8 71
Taxing tourism in developing countries 1 1 3 490 1 6 13 1,173
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 0 1 14 106 11 24 79 409
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 0 3 7 43
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 3 43 1 4 15 345
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 3 6 15 60
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 1 7 57 0 4 20 183
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 1 3 5 294
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 2 7 226
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 36
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 35
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 0 0 0 149 0 3 9 393
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 0 3 6 147
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 1 166 1 3 6 405
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 13
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 1 6 144
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 1 4 283 0 8 38 850
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 1 72 1 3 27 196
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 1 1 1 12 3 6 13 49
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 3 12 54 2,276
Total Journal Articles 18 46 240 5,495 86 390 1,274 19,692


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 7 22 70 314 30 74 188 856
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 1 1 1 13 2 6 9 61
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 1 3 58 3 7 27 163
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 4 12 149 2,317
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 5 16 442
Total Books 8 24 74 385 41 104 389 3,839


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 3 23 0 1 7 60
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 2 4 33 1 7 13 146
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 1 3 8 38 2 8 26 117
Introduction and Overview 1 1 15 101 3 6 25 171
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 2 8 0 3 10 18
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 1 4 51
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 2 3 16 132 8 16 60 360
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 1 1 1 6 1 4 5 45
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 3 4 45
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 19 0 2 6 44
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 1 3 8 36
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 0 2 5 77
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 1 5 0 2 4 40
Reforming Property Taxes 0 1 7 45 1 8 17 83
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 1 1 3 46 2 4 8 93
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 1 1 2 49 1 8 15 147
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 0 0 4 1,641
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 10 0 4 8 44
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 2 4 20 2 22 39 92
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 33
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 1 1 25 3 13 18 120
Total Chapters 7 17 69 901 25 118 295 3,477


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