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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 2 2 6 221
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 1 1 3 88 4 5 9 246
Are There Trends in Local Finance? A Comparative Look at Data and Normative Models of Local Government Finance 0 0 0 102 0 1 2 195
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 2 2 9 442 3 4 17 963
Below the Salt: Decentralizing Value-Added Taxes 0 0 2 157 1 1 6 294
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 1 2 6 251 2 6 17 525
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 1 1 1 72 2 4 11 150
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 0 0 412 0 2 6 1,203
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 3 5 7 552 4 8 14 1,104
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 50 0 1 4 168
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 44 0 1 2 192
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 2 2 3 54 4 4 11 131
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 169 3 4 9 293
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 5 417 0 2 19 1,470
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 0 2 391 2 4 10 2,156
Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example 0 0 1 168 1 2 9 426
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 0 161 1 1 3 751
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 1 4 223 1 10 39 601
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 2 175 1 1 8 406
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 0 2 728
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 4 149 3 4 10 243
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 4 4 131 2 11 13 281
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 1 4 594 2 6 21 1,591
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 2 2 6 369 3 4 12 1,424
Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries 3 3 3 139 6 9 10 336
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 0 5 151 1 2 13 367
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 1 1 3 179
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 2 2 4 149 4 5 11 274
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 1 4 8 33
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 1 2 26 0 3 7 85
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 2 4 16 849 8 13 45 2,957
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 1 1 119 0 1 2 678
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 2 125 1 2 5 272
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 3 260 1 1 6 647
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 1 2 6 60 1 4 20 147
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 2 114 2 4 10 274
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 3 9 123 4 12 37 424
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 1 2 7 26 3 6 19 52
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 1 1 6 575 3 9 30 1,663
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 2 79 0 1 3 182
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 0 0 0 7 6 8 17 36
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 3 212 0 4 7 656
Smart Tax Administration 1 1 2 37 2 3 12 104
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 0 2 395
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 360 1 4 14 1,054
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 2 71 0 1 5 221
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 0 0 139 0 1 5 317
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 133 0 1 1 291
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 0 66 0 0 1 183
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 0 2 75 1 1 4 197
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 1 5 254 2 6 17 555
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 0 50 1 1 2 128
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 0 1 218 1 1 3 591
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 1 3 5 470
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 0 1 10 691
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 1 4 501
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 2 3 207
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 0 122 0 0 1 189
Tax challenges facing developing countries 0 0 2 239 0 2 10 539
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 1 9 0 0 2 22
Taxation and Decentralization 0 1 2 33 0 2 6 82
Taxation and Development 0 0 5 52 1 4 19 125
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 0 0 3 224
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 1 1 1 49 1 2 8 156
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 31
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 55
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 5 89 0 1 16 176
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 2 124 0 1 4 955
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 96 0 0 3 269
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 1 2 119 2 3 8 485
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 313 0 0 3 987
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 1 247 1 3 10 501
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 1 1 4 86 4 25 33 294
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 1 49 0 1 6 105
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 1 4 10 196 6 12 33 309
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 1 75 2 6 14 238
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 0 1 79 0 0 4 115
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 1 1 3 122
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 0 0 382
Urban governance and finance in India 0 0 1 227 0 0 14 1,009
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 1 293 0 1 3 614
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 2 173 1 3 8 406
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 0 4 233 2 5 19 539
Total Working Papers 26 50 197 13,859 115 275 833 40,826
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 2 95 0 0 7 190
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 0 0 5 133 0 4 25 430
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 0 80 1 1 2 165
Are global taxes feasible? 0 1 3 27 2 5 10 124
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 0 2 419
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 3 4 6 152 4 6 11 430
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 1 1 27 0 1 3 76
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 1 20 0 0 3 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 2 8 188 2 7 32 491
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 0 0 2 189 4 4 8 565
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 1 1 20 1 7 8 124
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 50
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 0 0 1 266
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 0 1 6 1 2 6 22
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 1 1 6 0 2 2 20
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 1 1 1 81
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 1 2 6 36 5 13 24 127
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 1 1 425
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 1 1 95 0 1 2 257
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 6 8 20 415 11 20 54 831
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 1 2 125
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 37
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 15 0 1 3 56
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 0 0 2 26 1 1 11 89
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 1 1 2 64
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 76
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 2 16
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 1 17 1 2 8 49
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 1 1 3 180
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 1 1 12 0 2 3 47
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 4 19 81 756 27 71 297 2,308
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 17 0 1 4 72
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 1 2 26 1 3 8 102
Smart Tax Administration 4 5 13 110 5 13 43 339
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 2 2 6 207 3 4 14 660
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 25
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 2 273 0 1 6 828
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 2 12 137 3 7 26 337
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 2 7 87 0 7 24 294
Taxation and Decentralization 0 1 2 75 1 3 6 172
Taxation and Development 0 0 1 121 1 2 7 302
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 0 0 1 111
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 1 24 0 1 5 144
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 2 3 6 68
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 0 487 0 1 5 1,163
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 0 0 10 99 5 11 57 363
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 38
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 2 2 42 1 3 4 333
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 2 2 2 10 3 4 6 51
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 1 1 5 54 2 3 16 172
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 3 3 7 223
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 1 11 0 0 1 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 0 1 3 386
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 0 0 0 52 1 1 2 142
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 0 165 1 1 2 400
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 12
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 139
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 0 1 4 280 1 12 32 832
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 4 72 4 6 25 185
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 11 4 4 6 41
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 4 16 56 2,251
Total Journal Articles 25 60 222 5,396 114 279 927 18,990


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 6 13 42 270 16 35 97 725
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 53
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism 0 1 2 57 2 5 13 146
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 1 13 238 2,297
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 435
Total Books 6 14 44 339 19 55 369 3,656


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 2 22 0 1 6 57
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 10
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 1 2 31 0 1 5 136
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 2 2 4 34 6 10 15 104
Introduction and Overview 0 10 20 99 2 14 28 163
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 2 7 0 2 6 12
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 2 22 0 1 3 48
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 3 5 20 126 5 15 52 331
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 41
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 42
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 0 1 19 0 0 4 42
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 1 2 4 30
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 1 19 0 1 2 73
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 37
Reforming Property Taxes 2 3 6 43 2 3 6 71
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 0 2 45 0 1 5 89
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 0 0 3 48 0 0 8 138
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 2 283 3 3 6 1,640
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 9 1 1 6 38
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 0 2 18 3 5 11 62
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 2 2 8 32
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 0 24 0 2 3 104
Total Chapters 7 21 70 875 27 68 186 3,303


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