Countries that are moving from central planning to a market economy face unique problems in many areas, including taxation and public finance. The methods of collecting the revenue needed to fund government services were much different under a socialist system. Shifting to a market system...

This paper describes the EC directive on capital duties and its evolution or gradual suppressing. The paper is meant to form a chapter on a book on EU taxation. It reviews case law and modifications to the directive

This article reviews research on the taxation of electronic commerce, with a focus on sales taxes in the USA (where retailers are not always obligated to collect sales taxes for online sales). The literature has found evidence that sales taxes have large effects on buying behaviour online, which...

In all the countries with a consolidated and developed democracy from the economic point of view, a major part of public affairs are assigned in the administrative-financial and regulatory responsibility of local authorities. Similar to other states, in Romania this process of decentralization,...

Thomas Lenk, Universität Leipzig, betont, dass der bundesstaatliche Finanzausgleich auch zukünftig die Konturen des kooperativen Föderalismus bewahren und auf den Erhalt der Solidargemeinschaft zwischen finanzkräftigen und finanzschwachen Ländern hinwirken muss.

This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...

Due to the Nordic Tax Treaty, commuters pay their income taxes where they earn income. This creates problems in local government finances in Scania County of Sweden, because the number of commuters received on both sides of the Öresund Strait is not symmetric, but the flow from Scania County of...

This paper provides a comparable estimate of the magnitude of tax debt in Italy and investigates which administrative factors would contribute to explain it. It is inspired by the work of the OECD on comparative tax administration. Our findings show that the level of undisputed tax debt in Italy...

I consider optimal nonlinear taxation of income and bequests with a joy-of-giving bequest motive and explicitly characterize the optimal estate tax rate. The optimal formula trades off correction of externality from giving and discouraging effort of children due to income effect generated by...