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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 0 1 14 233
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 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 0 2 14 255
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 1 5 199
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 1 6 445 0 4 23 981
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 0 4 252 0 3 29 544
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 1 3 12 158
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 1 413 0 4 20 1,221
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 8 555 2 2 24 1,120
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 45 0 1 9 200
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 50 0 1 6 173
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 856
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 0 1 6 58 0 5 26 152
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 170 0 1 18 307
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 1 418 4 7 18 1,485
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 2 2 4 395 6 8 19 2,171
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) 0 1 8 229 0 3 37 620
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 175 0 3 14 417
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes? 0 0 1 146 1 4 10 309
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 1 7 735
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 1 150 0 6 24 263
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 2 6 133 0 3 20 290
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 1 1 4 596 5 9 27 1,611
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 3 370 0 2 14 1,434
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 0 5 156 0 1 16 381
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 2 10 188
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 1 1 5 152 1 6 22 291
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 1 5 22 51
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 2 27 0 2 9 90
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 2 5 14 858 3 13 45 2,984
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 1 119 0 3 9 686
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 0 125 0 2 17 287
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 3 263 1 4 25 671
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 4 61 3 12 22 164
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 3 116 1 8 22 291
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 1 1 9 127 3 9 48 457
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 3 7 30 1 7 29 73
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 1 1 6 579 5 10 35 1,686
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 1 1 80 0 3 10 191
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 0 0 43 71
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 1 1 213 0 3 11 663
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 2 38 0 3 14 115
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 72 0 7 35 254
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 1 5 11 406
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 360 2 4 18 1,068
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 1 1 1 140 2 10 22 338
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 1 2 13 303
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 1 1 67 0 5 17 200
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 1 2 77 0 1 11 207
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 3 6 258 2 10 33 581
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 1 1 51 0 7 12 139
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 0 2 220 1 13 28 618
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 5 16 482
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 1 6 24 710
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 0 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 0 6 27 232
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 1 2 16 553
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 0 9 0 4 7 29
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 1 33 1 4 9 89
Taxation and Development 0 2 4 56 0 7 21 142
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research? 0 0 1 322 0 3 19 393
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 1 4 21 245
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 0 1 15 169
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 3 8 38
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 2 6 61
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 1 1 3 91 7 11 26 199
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 1 125 0 4 13 967
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 1 1 97 0 3 7 276
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 1 4 122 0 2 11 493
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 2 249 0 1 13 510
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 2 315 0 5 16 1,003
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 2 3 6 91 6 17 66 334
The Personal Income Tax 0 1 1 50 0 4 7 110
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 1 2 8 199 1 13 53 347
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 3 77 2 8 24 254
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 1 1 1 80 2 9 18 133
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 1 2 7 389
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 0 2 12 133
Urban governance and finance in India 1 1 2 229 2 6 23 1,031
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 2 3 296 0 7 15 628
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 0 173 1 5 14 417
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 0 233 1 1 12 545
Total Working Papers 15 46 181 13,979 74 380 1,554 41,679
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 1 96 0 0 5 193
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 0 3 136 0 7 29 452
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 1 1 81 0 7 14 178
Are global taxes feasible? 1 1 5 31 2 4 26 145
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 2 8 426
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 1 5 153 1 4 21 442
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 27 0 3 7 82
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 0 20 0 2 6 73
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 6
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 0 1 6 191 2 7 26 507
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 1 3 4 193 1 7 20 580
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 3 22 0 3 18 134
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 0 3 5 54
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 7
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 11
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 0 2 5 271
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 0 6 0 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 0 6 13 93
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 2 5 11 44 4 13 72 185
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 2 3 427
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 0 1 95 0 1 4 260
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 6 10 37 441 10 27 104 912
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 3 4 128
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 38
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 16 1 4 14 69
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 2 5 31 1 8 23 110
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 0 1 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 0 2 5 19
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 1 18 0 1 12 59
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 0 1 9 188
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 2 4 5 36
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 0 3 7 54
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 1 12 0 2 6 51
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 0 11 59 791 10 51 268 2,481
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 1 2 2 2 1 3 5 5
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 0 17 0 3 12 83
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 3 5 30 2 9 21 119
Smart Tax Administration 1 2 11 115 3 9 47 371
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 2 2 5 209 2 7 20 674
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 26
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 1 4 277 2 10 30 857
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 1 2 8 131
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 2 5 14 147 3 8 33 360
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 1 4 15 99 4 15 43 327
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 1 75 1 4 15 184
Taxation and Development 0 1 1 122 0 3 19 317
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 2 5 116
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 0 24 0 1 4 146
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 0 2 8 73
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 3 490 1 3 15 1,176
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 2 4 12 110 7 19 80 428
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 0 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 3 9 24 354
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 2 5 19 65
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 0 5 57 2 8 25 191
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 6 10 300
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 2 8 228
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 0 11 1 2 4 38
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 39
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 0 2 2 151 0 4 12 397
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 6 6 12 153
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 1 166 0 0 6 405
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 1 5 7 18
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 1 4 10 148
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 0 4 283 2 11 43 861
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 3 3 75 3 10 28 206
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 12 0 1 13 50
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 5 12 58 2,288
Total Journal Articles 20 64 241 5,559 87 380 1,438 20,072


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 6 23 84 337 14 68 241 924
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 1 13 0 1 9 62
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 1 2 4 60 2 6 28 169
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 6 20 71 2,337
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 7 16 449
Total Books 7 25 89 410 24 102 365 3,941


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 1 23 0 3 7 63
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 16
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 1 1 4 34 1 6 17 152
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 2 8 40 1 10 33 127
Introduction and Overview 2 5 19 106 4 10 34 181
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 2 8 2 4 13 22
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 1 5 52
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 3 16 135 3 14 61 374
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 1 2 7 0 2 7 47
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 46
Property Taxes in Mexico 1 1 1 20 1 5 10 49
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 1 9 37
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 0 0 5 77
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 1 5 0 1 5 41
Reforming Property Taxes 1 4 10 49 2 8 24 91
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 1 1 3 47 1 2 8 95
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 1 3 50 0 4 16 151
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 0 5 9 1,646
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 10 0 3 10 47
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 0 2 20 0 5 40 97
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 34
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 6
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 25 0 2 20 122
Total Chapters 7 19 74 920 15 96 355 3,573


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