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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 2 9 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 0 6 12 252
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 2 4 198
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 1 1 8 444 6 12 25 977
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 0 0 2 158 0 3 8 299
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 0 4 251 4 12 29 540
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 1 5 11 155
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 0 412 1 8 17 1,215
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 3 9 555 4 11 25 1,117
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 1 1 45 0 6 8 199
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 50 0 0 5 169
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 0 0 4 55 2 11 23 144
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 1 1 2 170 4 7 16 304
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 1 3 418 2 6 19 1,478
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 1 1 3 393 2 6 14 2,163
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 1 2 2 170 7 14 24 444
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 1 1 162 0 8 11 760
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 2 3 9 228 4 11 45 615
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 1 175 1 6 11 413
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 3 4 732
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 1 4 150 1 8 19 254
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 4 131 0 3 16 285
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 0 4 595 1 6 24 1,598
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 1 3 370 1 6 12 1,430
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 1 2 6 142 1 6 21 348
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 1 5 5 156 2 12 15 380
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 4 9 185
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 1 2 4 151 3 9 17 284
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 3 9 16 43
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 26 0 2 7 87
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 3 16 852 2 8 49 2,969
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 1 119 0 4 6 682
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 1 125 4 11 17 285
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 3 5 263 1 13 21 663
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 5 60 2 4 18 152
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 1 4 116 1 7 16 282
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 0 8 123 8 17 47 442
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 1 1 7 27 2 11 28 66
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 1 2 7 578 6 11 34 1,676
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 79 1 5 8 188
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 2 33 51 70
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 1 212 1 3 9 660
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 3 38 0 5 12 110
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 4 5 400
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 360 1 8 22 1,063
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 72 7 18 24 243
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 3 5 11 326
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 1 6 11 301
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 1 11 12 195
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 1 3 76 0 7 11 205
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 1 4 255 3 12 28 571
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 1 2 4 131
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 0 1 219 1 11 15 604
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 1 6 12 477
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 2 9 19 702
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 1 5 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 4 11 18 223
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 1 1 2 191
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 0 0 239 0 8 18 549
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 1 9 0 1 3 24
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 33 2 3 7 85
Taxation and Development 0 1 4 53 2 6 21 134
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 1 11 14 238
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 2 9 16 166
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 3 5 35
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 2 4 4 59
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 5 90 2 10 21 188
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 1 2 125 2 6 9 962
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 96 0 3 6 272
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 3 121 0 3 10 490
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 247 0 4 14 508
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 314 0 8 12 997
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 1 4 87 4 15 49 312
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 1 49 0 1 5 106
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 0 10 197 7 18 49 331
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 1 2 76 1 7 18 245
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 0 79 1 6 9 123
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 2 4 5 387
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 0 5 10 130
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 0 227 4 7 23 1,020
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 1 1 2 294 1 6 8 620
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 173 3 6 10 412
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 3 233 0 3 21 544
Total Working Papers 13 42 199 13,920 145 621 1,372 41,595
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 1 1 96 0 3 8 193
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 1 2 4 136 6 14 29 445
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 1 5 7 171
Are global taxes feasible? 0 1 3 28 1 14 23 139
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 5 6 424
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 4 152 1 6 15 436
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 27 0 2 3 78
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 1 20 0 4 5 71
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 0 0 6 189 0 6 28 498
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 0 2 190 1 4 13 572
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 1 3 22 0 6 15 131
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 51
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 3 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 5 7 87
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 0 1 7 38 10 33 58 167
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 2 3 259
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 1 6 28 428 7 31 89 879
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 1 2 16 1 7 10 64
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 3 4 29 1 9 16 99
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 0 3 5 67
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 78
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 0 7 13 57
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 2 6 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 0 1 3 48
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 5 12 74 774 27 89 302 2,413
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 3 10 79
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 1 2 27 1 5 13 109
Smart Tax Administration 2 3 15 113 6 20 56 360
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 5 207 2 7 18 667
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 2 2 2 275 2 11 16 842
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 1 4 6 129
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 0 4 16 142 4 13 36 352
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 3 12 93 0 10 34 307
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 75 2 8 12 180
Taxation and Development 0 0 0 121 0 10 15 312
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 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 3 8 71
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 1 2 489 2 7 12 1,172
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 1 3 14 106 8 23 68 398
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 7 14 344
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 0 6 12 57
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 1 7 57 1 7 21 183
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 2 4 293
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 3 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 1 6 10 393
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 0 2 5 404
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 13
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 1 4 6 144
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 1 4 283 3 12 40 850
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 1 72 1 6 27 195
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 11 2 5 11 46
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 4 16 56 2,273
Total Journal Articles 12 48 237 5,477 102 487 1,254 19,606


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 5 24 67 307 14 70 170 826
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 0 12 0 6 7 59
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 1 1 3 58 3 10 24 160
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 0 3 18 440
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 5 12 172 2,313
Total Books 6 25 70 377 22 101 391 3,798


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 3 23 0 2 8 60
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 1 2 4 33 2 7 12 145
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 2 2 7 37 3 7 25 115
Introduction and Overview 0 0 14 100 1 4 22 168
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 2 8 0 4 10 18
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 2 4 51
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 3 15 130 3 14 57 352
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 0 5 1 3 4 44
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 1 3 4 45
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 19 1 2 6 44
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 4 7 35
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 1 3 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 1 1 7 45 3 9 16 82
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 0 2 45 0 2 6 91
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 0 1 48 0 7 14 146
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 0 1 4 1,641
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 10 0 4 9 44
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 2 2 4 20 3 26 38 90
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 1 8 33
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 1 1 1 25 4 11 15 117
Total Chapters 8 12 63 894 23 118 282 3,452


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