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A Better Local Business Tax: The BVT 0 0 0 64 0 0 14 233
A preliminary analysis of intergovernment transfers in Romania 0 0 0 8 0 0 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 0 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 0 4 199
Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 0 0 5 445 0 0 21 981
Benchmarking Tax Administrations in Developing Countries: A Systemic Approach 0 0 2 252 1 2 23 546
Can GTA Municipalities Raise Property Taxes? An Analysis of Tax Competition and Revenue Hills 0 0 1 72 0 1 12 158
China's Fiscal System: A Work in Progress (2005) 0 1 2 414 0 2 22 1,223
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalaces and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 0 0 6 555 0 2 21 1,120
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 1 45 1 1 10 201
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 50 0 1 7 174
Decentralisation Financiere et Pays en Developement: Concepts, Mesure et Evaluation 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 857
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Reconciling Principles and Practice 0 0 6 58 0 0 25 152
Decentralization and Infrastructure: Principles and Practice 0 0 1 170 0 0 18 307
Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill? 0 0 1 418 1 5 16 1,486
Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy 0 3 5 396 0 9 22 2,174
Décentralisation financière et pays en dévelopement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 1 162 0 0 11 761
Earmarking in Theory and Korean Practice (2005) 0 1 8 230 0 2 24 622
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 175 2 2 14 419
Financing Social Expenditures in Developing Countries: Payroll or Value Added Taxes? 0 0 1 146 0 2 9 310
Financing local government in Hungary 0 0 0 155 0 0 7 735
Fiscal Decentralization and Decentralizing Tax Administration: Different Questions, Different Answers 0 0 1 150 2 3 27 266
Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: A Work (Still) in Progress 0 0 3 133 1 3 16 293
Fiscal Flows, Fiscal Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability 0 1 3 596 1 6 26 1,612
Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis 0 0 3 370 1 3 16 1,437
Getting it Right: Financing Urban Development in China 0 0 5 156 0 1 17 382
Global Taxes and International Taxation: Mirage and Reality 0 0 0 77 0 0 10 188
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from around the World 0 1 5 152 1 2 23 292
IMFG@10: The Past, Present, and Future of City Finance and Governance 0 0 0 5 1 2 22 52
Improving Taxpayer Service and Facilitating Compliance in Singapore 0 0 2 27 0 0 8 90
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Universal Principles, Local Applications 1 4 14 860 3 7 43 2,988
Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam 0 0 0 119 0 0 8 686
Is Decentralization "Glue" or "Solvent" for National Unity? 0 0 0 125 0 0 16 287
Is VAT the Best Way to Impose a General Consumption Tax in Developing Countries 0 0 3 263 1 3 27 673
Is it Really so Hard-To-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 0 2 61 0 5 21 166
Local Taxes and Local Expenditures: Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection 0 0 2 116 0 3 23 293
Merging Municipalities: Is Bigger Better? 0 1 7 127 0 4 43 458
Provincial-Local Equalization in Canada: Time for a Change? 0 0 6 30 1 2 27 74
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries (2005) 1 2 6 580 1 10 34 1,691
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 1 80 0 0 10 191
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission 1 1 1 8 1 1 43 72
Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look At Tax Assignment 0 0 1 213 0 0 9 663
Smart Tax Administration 0 0 2 38 1 1 15 116
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 1 72 0 0 33 254
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 0 0 111 0 1 11 406
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 1 1 361 3 7 22 1,073
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States 0 1 1 140 0 2 22 338
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 134 0 1 13 303
Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One 0 0 1 67 0 0 17 200
Subnational Taxes in Developing Countries: The Way Forward 0 0 2 77 2 4 15 211
Subnational taxation in developing countries: a review of the literature 0 0 4 258 0 3 32 582
TAXING ALCOHOL IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS AND UPDATES 0 0 1 51 1 2 14 141
Tax Assignment Revisited 0 0 2 220 1 3 30 620
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 252 0 2 21 711
Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries 0 0 0 85 0 1 16 483
Tax Effort: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 0 0 202 0 0 7 508
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 1 28 233
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 2 16 554
Tax incentives for foreign investment in Latin America 0 0 0 9 0 0 7 29
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 1 33 1 2 10 90
Taxation and Development 0 1 5 57 0 2 21 144
Taxation and Development: What Have We Learned from Fifty Years of Research? 0 0 1 322 0 0 17 393
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 0 147 0 1 21 245
Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? 0 0 1 49 0 0 14 169
Taxing Business 0 0 0 12 0 0 7 38
Taxing Consumption 0 0 0 31 0 0 6 61
Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 1 2 91 1 8 24 200
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica:The GCT and the SCT 0 0 1 125 0 0 13 967
Taxing consumption in Jamaica 0 0 1 97 0 0 7 276
The BBLR Approach to tax Reform in Emerging Countries 0 0 4 122 2 2 13 495
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 0 2 315 1 1 17 1,004
The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature 0 1 3 250 1 2 12 512
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 2 6 91 1 7 46 335
The Personal Income Tax 0 0 1 50 0 0 6 110
The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform 1 3 7 201 4 6 52 352
Tobacco and Alcohol Excise Taxes for Improving Public Health and Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin and Virtue? 0 0 2 77 0 3 22 255
Tobacco and alcohol excise taxes for improving public health and revenue outcomes: marrying sin and virtue ? 0 1 1 80 1 4 20 135
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 30 1 1 13 134
Urban Governance and Finance in India 0 0 0 98 0 1 7 389
Urban governance and finance in India 0 1 2 229 0 2 22 1,031
VATs in Federal States: Experiences and Emerging Possibilities 0 0 3 296 0 0 14 628
Value Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 0 173 0 1 14 417
Value-Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries: Lessons and Questions (2005) 0 1 1 234 0 2 11 546
Total Working Papers 4 28 166 13,992 41 160 1,501 41,765
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A new look at indirect taxation in developing countries 0 0 1 96 0 1 4 194
Administrative Dimensions of Tax Reform 1 1 4 137 2 2 25 454
An Approach to Metropolitan Governance and Finance 0 0 1 81 0 0 14 178
Are global taxes feasible? 0 1 5 31 1 4 26 147
CVAT, VIVAT, and Dual VAT: Vertical ``Sharing'' and Interstate Trade 0 0 0 122 0 0 7 426
Closing the Gap: Fiscal Imbalances and Intergovernmental Transfers in Developed Federations 4 5 9 158 5 7 22 448
Coordinating Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes: Lessons From the Canadian Experience 0 0 0 27 0 1 7 83
Decentralization of Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies 0 0 0 20 0 0 6 73
Developments in Intergovernmental Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 8
Dual Income Taxation: A Promising Path to Tax Reform for Developing Countries 0 0 4 191 1 3 22 508
Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution? 1 2 5 194 1 2 20 581
Décentralisation financière et pays en développement: concepts, mesure et évaluation 0 0 3 22 0 0 17 134
E Pluribus unum? Can Fiscal Federalism Reconcile Diversity and Cohesion in Fragmented States? 0 0 0 13 0 0 5 54
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 7
Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11
Federalism and Regional Disparities: A Review Essay 0 0 0 76 1 1 6 272
Finances of the Nation: Taxing Consumption in Canada: Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution 0 1 1 7 0 1 8 28
Financing Urbanization in Developing Countries by Benefit Taxation: Case Study of Colombia 0 0 1 6 0 1 4 23
Fiscal Arrangements for Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 0 16 0 0 13 93
Fiscal Contracting in Latin America 0 3 11 45 1 8 73 189
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 28
Income Distribution and Tax Policy in Colombia 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 427
Income Redistribution through the Fiscal System: The Limits of Knowledge 0 1 1 96 1 2 5 262
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries 0 7 35 442 2 15 104 917
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 3 128
Introduction 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 38
LOCAL TAXES AND LOCAL EXPENDITURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING THE WICKSELLIAN CONNECTION 0 0 1 16 5 6 19 74
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 2 6 32 1 4 25 113
Local Finance and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe 0 0 0 19 0 0 4 67
Local Response to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Case of Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 80
Mathew, E. T., Agricultural Taxation and Economic Development in India, London, Asia Publishing House, 1968, 204 pp. ($7.50) 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 20
Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp 0 0 1 18 1 1 12 60
On Measuring Fiscal Centralization and Fiscal Balance in Federal States 0 0 0 71 0 1 10 189
Policy Forum: Equalization and Canada's Fiscal Constitution--The Tie That Binds? 0 0 0 5 0 3 6 37
Put up or shut up: Self-assessment and asymmetric information 0 0 0 18 0 0 7 54
Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example 0 0 1 12 0 1 6 52
Redistribution via Taxation: The Limited Role of the Personal Income Tax in Developing Countries 3 8 56 799 5 26 238 2,497
Reflections on Measuring Urban Fiscal Health 0 1 2 2 0 1 5 5
Reforming International Taxation: Is the Process the Real Product? 0 0 0 17 0 1 13 84
SUBNATIONAL TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 0 1 6 31 0 4 22 121
Smart Tax Administration 0 1 10 115 2 5 44 373
Societal Institutions and Tax Effort in Developing Countries 0 2 4 209 2 5 20 677
THE NEED FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN A COMMON MARKET 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 26
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability 0 1 5 278 1 4 31 859
Tax Harmonization and Federal Finance: A Perspective on Recent Canadian Discussion 0 0 0 21 0 1 8 131
Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Looking Back—and Forward 0 2 12 147 1 8 32 365
Tax Policy in Emerging Countries 0 1 14 99 1 6 41 329
Taxation and Decentralization 0 0 1 75 1 2 16 185
Taxation and Development 0 0 1 122 0 0 16 317
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 0 5 116
Taxation in Papua New Guinea: Backwards to the future? 0 0 0 24 0 0 2 146
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica 0 0 0 26 0 1 8 74
Taxing tourism in developing countries 0 0 3 490 2 3 16 1,178
Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse 0 4 13 112 1 14 79 435
The Corporate Income Tax in Canada: Does its Past Foretell its Future? 0 0 0 9 1 3 11 48
The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax with a Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Canadian Experience 0 0 2 43 0 4 24 355
The GST/HST: Creating an Integrated Sales Tax in a Federal Country 0 0 2 10 1 3 19 66
The Impact on Investment of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax With a Value-Added Tax: Evidence From Canadian Experience 1 1 5 58 1 3 22 192
The Incidence of Indirect Taxes on Low-Income Households in Jamaica 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 300
The Incidence of the Property Tax: Old Wine In New Bottles? 0 0 0 105 0 0 8 228
The Income Tax in an Uncertain World: Pillar, Symbol, and Instrument 0 0 0 11 0 1 4 38
The Public Finances and the Technological Revolution: Comments 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 39
The Taxation of Personal Wealth in International Perspective 1 1 3 152 2 2 13 399
The Uneasy Case Against Discriminatory Excise Taxation: Soft Drink Taxes in Ireland 1 1 1 53 1 8 14 155
The Value Added Tax: Critique of a Review 0 0 1 166 0 0 6 405
The demand for local political autonomy: an individualistic theory 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 18
The economic costs of US stock mispricing 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 148
The limited role of the personal income tax in developing countries 1 1 4 284 3 7 40 866
Threading the Fiscal Labyrinth: Some Issues in Fiscal Decentralization 0 0 3 75 1 5 28 208
VAT in a Federal System: Lessons from Canada 0 0 1 12 0 0 13 50
Wagner's o Law' of Expanding State Activity 0 0 0 0 6 16 60 2,299
Total Journal Articles 14 48 239 5,587 55 204 1,405 20,189


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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries 1 13 85 344 4 30 243 940
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases 0 0 1 13 0 0 9 62
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 2 14 52 2,345
The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries 0 0 0 0 0 3 15 450
Total Books 1 13 86 357 6 47 319 3,797
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Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Central and Subnational VATs in Federal Countries 0 0 1 23 1 2 8 65
Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 16
Fiscal Federalism and National Unity 0 1 4 34 1 2 18 153
Foreign advice and tax policy in developing countries 0 1 9 41 1 4 35 130
Introduction and Overview 2 6 13 110 3 10 30 187
Is it Really so Hard to Tax the Hard-to-Tax? The Context and Role of Presumptive Taxes 0 1 2 9 0 3 12 23
Land Taxes in Colombia 0 0 0 22 1 1 5 53
Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review 1 3 15 137 2 8 58 379
Land and Property Taxes in Poland 0 0 2 7 1 1 7 48
Property Tax in Ukraine 0 0 0 5 0 1 6 47
Property Taxes in Mexico 0 1 1 20 0 1 7 49
Property Taxes in Nicaragua 0 0 0 8 0 2 11 39
Real Estate Tax in Latvia 0 0 0 19 0 0 4 77
Reconciling Diversity with Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada 0 0 1 5 0 0 4 41
Reforming Property Taxes 2 3 10 51 2 5 25 94
Subsidiarity, Solidarity and Asymmetry: Aspects of the Problem 0 1 2 47 1 2 8 96
Sustainable development requires a good tax system 1 1 3 51 1 1 14 152
Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 0 0 0 283 0 1 10 1,647
Tax System Change and the Impact of Tax Research 0 0 1 10 0 0 10 47
Taxation and inequality in the Americas: Changing the fiscal contract? 0 1 3 21 0 1 40 98
The Country Studies: Comparisons and Conclusions 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 34
VAT in Ukraine: An Interim Report 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
Value-Added Tax: Onward and Upward? 0 0 1 25 0 0 18 122
Total Chapters 6 19 68 932 14 45 345 3,603


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