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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 3 7 11 226
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 115
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Cautionary Note on Comparative Studies and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 1 2 88 0 4 8 246
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 2 3 5 198
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 3 9 443 2 7 18 967
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 0 1 2 158 1 4 8 297
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 1 5 251 1 6 19 529
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 1 1 72 1 3 10 151
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 0 412 2 6 11 1,209
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 2 5 8 554 3 9 17 1,109
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 50 0 1 5 169
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 44 2 3 5 195
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 853
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 0 3 4 55 4 10 16 137
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 169 1 8 12 298
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 4 417 1 3 18 1,473
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 1 2 392 1 4 9 2,158
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 1 1 2 169 4 9 16 434
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 1 1 1 162 3 5 7 755
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 2 6 225 2 6 37 606
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 1 175 2 4 9 409
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 1 2 3 730
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 1 1 4 150 5 11 17 251
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 4 131 1 4 14 283
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 1 4 595 3 6 23 1,595
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 2 4 369 4 7 13 1,428
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 1 5 5 141 3 15 19 345
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 3 3 5 154 7 9 14 375
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 3 5 181
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 1 3 3 150 4 9 14 279
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 2 4 11 36
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 1 26 0 0 6 85
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 3 15 850 3 15 48 2,964
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 1 119 1 1 3 679
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 1 125 4 7 10 278
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 2 2 5 262 6 10 15 656
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 6 60 0 2 18 148
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 1 2 4 116 3 6 13 278
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 0 9 123 1 6 37 426
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 1 6 26 3 9 22 58
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 1 3 6 577 3 8 28 1,668
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 79 0 1 3 183
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 16 23 34 53
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 2 212 1 2 8 658
Smart Tax Administration 0 2 3 38 3 6 10 108
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 3 72 2 6 10 227
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 360 4 6 19 1,059
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 2 3 3 398
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 1 5 7 322
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 4 5 6 188
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 1 1 134 3 7 8 298
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 1 1 3 76 4 6 9 202
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 1 1 6 255 5 11 25 564
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 1 3 4 130
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 1 2 219 4 7 9 597
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 3 5 14 696
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 3 5 9 474
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 2 4 6 505
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 2 9 10 214
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 1 2 190
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 0 2 239 2 4 14 543
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 1 9 0 1 3 23
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 33 0 0 5 82
Taxation and Development 1 1 4 53 3 7 21 131
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 3 6 7 230
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 1 1 49 0 2 8 157
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 32
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 55
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 1 5 90 5 7 17 183
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 1 1 3 125 3 4 8 959
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 96 1 1 4 270
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 2 4 121 1 5 9 488
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 247 0 4 10 504
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 2 314 4 6 9 993
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 1 2 5 87 6 13 41 303
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 1 49 1 1 7 106
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 2 11 197 6 16 41 319
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 1 1 2 76 3 5 17 241
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 0 79 0 2 5 117
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 4 8 9 129
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 1 2 2 384
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 0 227 1 5 17 1,014
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 1 293 1 1 3 615
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 2 173 0 1 7 406
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 3 233 2 6 20 543
Total Working Papers 21 66 205 13,899 196 459 1,057 41,170
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 1 95 1 1 7 191
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 1 2 6 135 5 6 29 436
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 1 3 4 167
Are global taxes feasible? 0 0 3 27 4 7 15 129
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 1 1 3 420
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 3 5 152 1 5 11 431
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 27 0 0 3 76
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 1 20 0 0 2 67
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 1 7 189 2 5 27 494
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 1 2 190 0 7 9 568
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 1 2 3 22 5 7 14 130
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 1 2 2 51
Editorial 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 9
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 0 1 2 267
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 1 6 2 3 6 24
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 1 6 0 1 3 21
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 1 3 3 83
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 1 3 8 38 8 20 38 142
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 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 1 1 3 258
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 3 16 27 425 15 43 80 863
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 1 1 2 16 2 3 6 59
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 1 2 27 2 4 12 92
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 65
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 4 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 1 3 17
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 1 17 2 4 11 52
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 1 3 4 182
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 32
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 0 3 3 50
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 1 12 1 1 4 48
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 3 13 76 765 40 83 298 2,364
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 17 0 4 7 76
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 1 1 3 27 2 5 12 106
Smart Tax Administration 0 4 12 110 6 12 46 346
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 2 5 207 2 5 15 662
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 0 0 1 273 6 9 13 837
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 2 4 4 127
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 3 6 16 141 6 11 30 345
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 2 5 11 92 6 9 31 303
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 75 2 3 8 174
Taxation and Development 0 0 0 121 3 4 9 305
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 1 20 1 2 3 113
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 0 24 0 0 4 144
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 2 4 8 70
Taxing tourism in developing countries 1 2 2 489 2 4 9 1,167
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 2 6 13 105 10 27 64 385
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 0 3 5 40
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 1 3 43 4 9 12 341
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 2 2 10 3 6 9 54
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 3 6 56 3 9 19 179
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 291
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 1 4 7 224
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 1 11 0 2 3 36
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 35
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 0 0 0 149 3 4 7 390
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 0 3 4 144
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 1 1 166 0 3 4 402
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 12
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 3 5 6 143
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 2 3 282 4 11 34 842
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 3 72 4 12 28 193
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 11 2 6 8 43
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 7 17 57 2,264
Total Journal Articles 20 78 237 5,449 183 426 1,094 19,302


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 9 28 59 292 26 73 141 782
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 0 12 2 2 3 55
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 0 2 57 6 12 22 156
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 437
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 4 9 213 2,305
Total Books 9 28 61 361 38 98 399 3,735


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 1 3 23 1 2 8 59
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 11
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 0 2 31 1 3 7 139
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 3 5 35 1 11 20 109
Introduction and Overview 0 1 16 100 1 4 24 165
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 1 7 1 3 8 15
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 1 22 1 2 4 50
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 2 6 19 129 6 18 57 344
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 41
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 42
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 19 0 0 4 42
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 2 4 5 33
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 75
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 1 1 5 0 1 3 38
Reforming Property Taxes 0 3 7 44 2 6 10 75
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 0 2 45 0 0 4 89
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 0 2 48 0 1 8 139
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 2 283 1 4 7 1,641
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 1 2 10 0 3 7 40
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 0 2 18 6 11 18 70
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 2 7 32
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 0 24 1 3 5 107
Total Chapters 2 16 66 884 25 83 215 3,359


Statistics updated 2026-01-09