Showing 1 - 10 of 186
This paper identifies tax factors in 21 developing countries that have an impact on foreign direct investment flows. It … categorizes those factors into issues associated with tax coordination; tax rates and rate structures; and composition of the tax … base. Recent actions by countries reveal no clear pattern in their attempts to increase tax coordination, while many have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263965
natural resources, are important determinants of tax revenue. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242287
Fiscal impulse measures are used in the WEO and elsewhere to indicate the changing impact of the budget on the economy. Such measures are intended to provide more accurate indications of whether the budget is becoming more or less expansionary than would just observing moments in the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248137
the inflation tax. Accordingly, continued effort is likely to be needed to attain a fiscal position that is sustainable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248177
This paper examines tax policy and tax reforms in Uganda. Using household survey evidence, the paper identifies which … taxes are progressive and investigates whether tax reforms have made the poor better or worse off. Household survey analysis … reveals that some of the tax reforms implemented in the 1990s were generally pro-poor. The paper also examines business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263814
The paper provides a selective survey of methods and findings concerning the impact of tax and welfare policies on … employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263942
The paper surveys the role of financial markets and fiscal institutions in the transformation process going on in Eastern and Central Europe. It highlights (a) the need to create some sort of “social ecological balance” necessary for the working of a modern market economy; (b) the need to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264034
Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending … level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased … mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax revenue in future years. The paper concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264098
Tax authorities in several countries have intensified their surveillance of intercompany transfer pricing in recent … pricing for tax purposes. It reviews the existing international guidelines and national rules on methods for determining … appropriate transfer prices, as well as the issues related to tax administration practices for the implementation of those rules …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264196
Argentina has committed itself to a reform of its revenue-sharing system. This paper examines this system and the issues involved in its redesign, and discusses the pros and cons of various options with a view to specifying a preferred approach.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826288