Many developing countries have struggled with realizing sufficient revenues from property tax. However, as developing countries experience economic growth, they are also seeing property values rising, providing a bigger tax base from which to realize revenues. Technology has made tax...

Using a panel of administrative data and regression discontinuity analysis, this paper examines how the introduction of preferential tax regimes for Georgian micro and small businesses in 2010 affects formal firm creation and tax compliance. The results show that the new tax regime for micro...

The tax on immovable property recently started to regain its former significance, but the tax yield still remains low, with slightly more than 1% of GDP and wide variation across countries. Against this background this paper surveys property tax policy in OECD countries and analyses the...

Die Kommunen leiden nicht erst seit der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise unter zunehmenden Finanzierungsproblemen. Sie versuchen, diese durch die Erhebung von Bagatellsteuern zu lösen. Erfolgversprechender wäre eine Steuer, die beitragsähnlichen Charakter hat und an Konsumausgaben mit hoher...