Our hypothesis: during the twentieth century governments used state emergency measures to overcome its economic crisis. Such measures did better on the revenue in fiscal expenditures, thereby caused severe imbalances of public policy. It holds that in Colombia there has been no welfare state...

The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the Vector Autoregression (VAR)...

We describe Hayek's position on taxation and its subsequent developments. Hayek defends the proportional tax system. If a majority rule corrects deviations from political power must also restrict the conditions of progressive taxation. According to Hayek the progressive tax system (SFP) violates...

Our hypothesis: during the twentieth century governments used state emergency measures to overcome its economic crisis. Such measures did better on the revenue in fiscal expenditures, thereby caused severe imbalances of public policy. It holds that in Colombia there has been no welfare state...

Nowadays, there is an interesting discussion about the utility of keeping the taxes on heritage in modern fiscal systems. Nevertheless this controversy has not been properly reflected yet in the acedemic research and there is not enough investigation into the reasons that justify their existence...

La imposición sobre las transmisiones gratuitas de riqueza ha venido aplicando un tratamiento muy similar, especialmente en lo referente a la tarifa del impuesto, a las transmisiones "mortis causa" y aquellas otras realizadas "inter vivos". No obstante, las particularidades que concurren en...

El cambio climático es una realidad inequívoca. Sus impactos en el mediano y ellargo plazo constituyen la más grave amenaza para la supervivencia de las próximasgeneraciones. Y en el corto plazo, los países en vía de desarrollo, que en su mayoríase encuentran en el trópico y por tanto...

Mediante un análisis enmarcado bajo el esquema de tasas retributivas, se propone una reforma fiscal verde para el caso colombiano como mecanismo para la reasignación de recursos fiscales en virtud de mejorar el bienestar social. Dicha reforma consiste en el financiamiento de disminuciones en...