From the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Latin American tax policy provided rich lessons for other reforming countries. Meaningful innovations led also to perceptible revenue gains. Later in the 1990s, tax policies began to drift. Shining examples of fundamental reform seemed to lose their luster....

Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...

This paper presents a simple two-country model with mobile capital and immobile labour, in which there are two classes of individuals, the workers and the capital owners. A source-based tax on capital income is used to finance transfers to workers. If the two countries are homogeneous in all...

Most of the literature on presumptive taxation limits its application to the less-developed economies. In this paper I argue that presumptive taxes are well entrenched in the modern world, although usually not classified as such. Presumptive taxes can take many forms, and can be incorporated in...

During the transformation process, the reform of public finances (in particular the tax system) is crucial for Georgia. There are a lot of proposals and suggestions in the financial literature concerning the introduction of tax systems in transition countries. Individual taxes or the entire tax...

This paper provides a review of the major findings in the economics literature on tax compliance. It focuses exclusively on the personal income tax, examining both the theory and the empirical work on enforcement and compliance with the tax laws.

This paper is a review of the major findings in the economics literature on tax compliance. The article, which focusses exclusively on the personal income tax, examines both the theory and empirical work on enforcement and compliance with tax laws from over 25 years of research.

It is universally accepted that quot;fairnessquot; is an essential requirement of a good tax system. What constitutes fairness, however, is a more complex question than is generally perceived. One expression of perceived fairness is the concept of quot;horizontal equity,quot; which provides that...

This paper is a part of a wider research concerning taxation in the main world economic areas, carried on at the Department of Public economic on the University of Pvia, Italy, directed by L. Bernardi and P. Profeta, under the supervision of Vito Tanzi. The paper illustrates and discusses the...