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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 1 64 1 2 5 219
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 115
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 1 1 3 87 1 3 6 241
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 1 1 194
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 1 4 5 438 1 6 10 955
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 0 0 2 156 0 2 4 291
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 2 5 248 0 2 8 512
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 3 71 2 3 10 146
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 0 412 0 1 4 1,199
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 1 3 547 2 3 13 1,095
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 49 1 2 3 166
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 44 0 1 1 191
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 853
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 0 0 2 51 3 3 6 124
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 0 168 0 2 5 288
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 1 2 7 416 1 6 22 1,462
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 1 1 2 391 1 3 6 2,152
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 0 1 2 168 0 4 10 422
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 161 0 1 1 749
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 1 3 220 0 4 21 573
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 1 174 0 1 5 402
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 0 5 728
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 3 3 9 149 4 5 13 239
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 0 127 0 0 4 269
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 1 1 3 592 4 9 18 1,583
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 5 367 0 2 13 1,419
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 0 0 2 136 0 1 6 327
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 0 5 151 0 0 11 365
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 1 2 177
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 0 4 147 0 0 7 267
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 0 2 7 29
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 25 0 2 5 81
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 2 3 17 838 5 10 45 2,927
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? 1 1 2 125 2 2 4 270
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 1 5 259 0 2 8 644
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 2 3 56 0 4 17 136
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 1 1 5 113 1 1 10 267
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 2 3 6 117 3 10 28 401
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 1 2 6 22 2 6 20 43
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 0 4 571 1 3 25 1,645
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 1 1 3 79 1 1 5 181
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 1 7 0 0 2 19
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 4 211 0 0 6 651
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 1 35 1 1 12 99
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 0 3 395
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 359 3 5 13 1,045
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 2 70 0 2 5 219
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 1 139 0 0 6 315
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 66 0 1 5 183
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 133 0 0 2 290
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 1 1 4 74 1 2 6 195
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 2 5 252 1 5 17 546
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 0 0 2 127
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 1 2 218 0 1 5 589
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 1 252 0 1 7 683
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 0 1 465
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 0 91 0 1 2 205
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 0 1 189
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 1 3 239 2 3 7 533
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 21
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 0 31 1 2 3 79
Taxation and Development 0 0 2 49 0 2 8 113
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 48 1 3 6 152
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 147 0 1 6 224
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 30
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 55
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 1 1 3 86 2 2 13 169
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 1 2 2 124 1 2 4 954
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 1 1 1 96 2 2 2 268
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 1 1 118 0 2 6 481
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 1 1 1 247 1 2 6 496
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 1 313 1 3 5 987
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 2 2 5 85 2 4 12 267
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 3 48 0 1 9 102
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 1 6 188 3 4 20 286
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 4 74 1 4 13 228
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 1 79 0 2 5 114
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 0 0 382
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 1 1 3 121
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 2 227 4 5 24 1,002
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 0 292 0 0 2 612
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 1 1 172 0 2 5 402
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 1 6 231 1 4 18 527
Total Working Papers 23 49 187 13,754 65 183 678 40,342
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 3 95 0 0 4 185
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 4 6 133 0 12 18 420
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 0 1 1 164
Are global taxes feasible? 0 1 1 25 0 3 8 118
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 0 2 418
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 5 148 0 0 6 421
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 26 0 1 4 75
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 1 1 20 0 1 4 67
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 0 1 6 183 2 8 23 476
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 1 2 189 0 1 8 560
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 0 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 0 2 266
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 1 1 2 6 2 2 6 20
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 0 2 7 32 0 6 19 111
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 0 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 0 2 256
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 3 6 21 404 5 15 45 800
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 1 1 15 0 2 2 55
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 1 5 26 1 3 15 84
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 1 1 3 17 2 4 8 46
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 0 5 0 0 0 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 0 1 2 45
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 10 20 75 715 26 73 228 2,160
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 0 16 0 1 2 70
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 0 4 25 1 2 12 98
Smart Tax Administration 2 4 12 102 3 11 29 312
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 4 203 0 4 10 651
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 24
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 1 8 273 0 2 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 2 3 7 128 3 4 14 319
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 2 2 6 83 2 5 14 277
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 0 73 0 2 3 168
Taxation and Development 0 0 3 121 0 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) 0 1 2 20 0 1 3 111
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 1 24 0 1 2 141
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 0 1 1 63
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 3 487 0 2 7 1,160
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 3 3 12 95 8 13 56 338
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 2 9 0 1 4 36
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 1 40 0 1 3 330
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 45
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 1 1 7 51 1 4 13 164
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 290
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 1 3 219
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 1 3 11 0 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 1 2 3 385
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 0 0 2 141
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 0 165 0 1 2 399
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 11
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 138
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 0 12 279 2 5 47 814
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 5 71 3 4 20 172
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 1 2 11 0 1 3 36
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 1 11 66 2,223
Total Journal Articles 26 58 238 5,281 65 219 768 18,483


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 7 16 37 251 10 29 95 678
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 53
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 1 1 1 56 2 4 6 138
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 40 95 269 2,208
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 7 27 428
Total Books 8 17 38 319 55 136 399 3,505


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 1 1 2 21 1 3 7 54
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 0 4 29 0 1 9 133
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 2 2 2 32 2 3 8 93
Introduction and Overview 0 0 13 86 0 3 22 146
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 3 6 0 1 4 8
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 1 2 22 0 1 3 47
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 5 18 117 4 13 40 304
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 40
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 0 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 0 1 19 0 0 2 72
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 36
Reforming Property Taxes 1 1 4 39 1 1 4 67
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 0 2 43 1 1 5 86
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 1 3 47 1 2 6 133
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 1 4 283 0 1 9 1,637
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 9 1 3 6 37
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 0 0 16 1 2 5 54
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 1 4 7 29
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 0 5 102
Total Chapters 5 12 60 837 13 40 151 3,195


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