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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 3 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? 1 1 6 445 2 4 24 981
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 1 4 252 1 4 30 544
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 1 2 11 157
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 1 1 413 2 6 21 1,221
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 8 555 0 1 22 1,118
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 1 50 0 4 7 173
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 3 7 58 1 8 28 152
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 170 0 3 18 307
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 1 418 0 3 15 1,481
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 0 2 393 0 2 13 2,165
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 1 162 0 1 12 761
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 1 1 9 229 2 5 46 620
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 175 0 4 14 417
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes? 0 0 1 146 0 4 9 308
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 3 7 735
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 1 150 0 9 24 263
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 2 2 6 133 2 5 21 290
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 0 3 595 1 8 22 1,606
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 3 370 0 4 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 3 10 188
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 0 4 151 1 6 21 290
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 2 7 21 50
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 1 2 27 0 3 9 90
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 4 14 856 4 12 49 2,981
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 1 119 0 4 9 686
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 0 125 1 2 17 287
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 3 263 1 7 24 670
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 1 1 5 61 6 9 24 161
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 3 116 2 8 21 290
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 3 8 126 1 12 49 454
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 1 3 7 30 1 6 28 72
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 0 0 5 578 1 5 31 1,681
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 1 1 80 1 3 10 191
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 0 1 52 71
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 1 2 213 0 3 12 663
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 3 38 2 5 15 115
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 360 0 3 18 1,066
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 1 5 10 405
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 72 4 11 35 254
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 2 10 20 336
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 1 1 1 67 3 5 17 200
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 0 1 12 302
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 1 3 77 0 2 12 207
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 1 3 6 258 2 8 32 579
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 1 1 51 1 8 12 139
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 1 2 220 0 13 27 617
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 1 7 24 709
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 2 5 17 482
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 9 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 0 3 15 552
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 0 9 2 5 7 29
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 1 33 2 3 8 88
Taxation and Development 0 3 4 56 1 8 24 142
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research? 0 0 1 322 0 7 19 393
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 0 3 16 169
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 1 6 20 244
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 1 3 8 38
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 2 6 61
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 4 90 1 4 21 192
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 1 125 0 5 13 967
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 1 1 1 97 1 4 7 276
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 1 1 4 122 2 3 11 493
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 2 315 0 6 16 1,003
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 2 2 249 0 2 14 510
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 2 4 89 5 16 61 328
The Personal Income Tax 0 1 2 50 0 4 8 110
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 0 1 8 198 4 15 56 346
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 1 3 77 1 7 24 252
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 0 79 0 8 17 131
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 1 1 6 388
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 1 3 12 133
Urban governance and finance in India 0 1 1 228 1 9 22 1,029
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 2 2 3 296 2 8 15 628
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 0 173 1 4 13 416
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 1 233 0 0 13 544
Total Working Papers 13 46 180 13,964 78 411 1,551 41,605
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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 2 7 32 452
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 1 1 81 3 7 14 178
Are global taxes feasible? 0 2 5 30 1 4 25 143
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 1 1 5 153 2 5 20 441
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 1 27 2 4 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 3 3 6
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 0 2 6 191 1 7 25 505
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 1 2 3 192 3 7 19 579
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 3 22 1 3 18 134
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 1 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 1 6 13 93
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 1 4 10 42 2 14 70 181
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 1 7 31 435 5 23 96 902
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 13 68
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 1 4 30 1 10 22 109
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 2 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 2 13 59
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 0 1 10 188
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 0 2 3 34
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 3 6 51
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 5 17 66 791 15 58 286 2,471
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 0 1 1 1 0 2 4 4
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 0 17 1 4 12 83
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 3 5 30 2 8 19 117
Smart Tax Administration 1 1 10 114 2 8 47 368
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 3 207 2 5 19 672
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 2 4 277 2 13 28 855
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 0 1 7 130
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 2 3 13 145 2 5 33 357
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 1 5 14 98 5 16 43 323
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 2 75 0 3 15 183
Taxation and Development 0 1 1 122 0 5 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 1 2 9 73
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 1 3 490 1 3 14 1,175
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 2 2 12 108 7 23 78 421
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 1 7 21 351
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 0 6 18 63
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 0 0 5 57 1 6 24 189
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 7 10 300
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 1 2 9 228
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 0 11 0 1 3 37
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 0 0 6 147
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 1 166 0 1 6 405
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 17
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 3 9 147
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 0 4 283 4 9 44 859
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 3 3 3 75 5 8 26 203
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 1 1 12 0 4 13 50
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 4 10 54 2,283
Total Journal Articles 18 62 234 5,539 84 379 1,416 19,985


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 7 24 78 331 32 84 230 910
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 1 1 13 1 3 9 62
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 1 3 59 1 7 27 167
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 8 18 88 2,331
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 1 7 16 447
Total Books 7 26 82 403 43 119 370 3,917


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 2 23 1 3 9 63
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 16
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 0 3 33 0 6 16 151
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 3 8 40 3 11 33 126
Introduction and Overview 1 4 18 104 3 9 31 177
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 2 8 1 2 11 20
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 1 5 52
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 4 15 134 2 19 62 371
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 2 2 7 0 3 7 47
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 46
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 19 1 4 10 48
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 2 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 2 3 9 48 2 7 22 89
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 1 2 46 0 3 7 94
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 2 3 50 0 5 16 151
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 1 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 3 20 0 7 42 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 5 20 122
Total Chapters 4 19 71 913 15 106 351 3,558


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