Paper compares corporate tax systems and their trends in the EU and CEEC. It concludes that separate tax rate for dividends at the shareholder level, which gains in importance in the EU, is the predominant form in the CEEC. Besides its efficiency (mitigation of double taxation), it has the...

Fiscal Decentralization Reforms and Local Government Efficiency: An Introduction -- Fiscal Decentralization in Bulgaria -- Fiscal Decentralization in the Czech Republic -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Hungary -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Poland -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Romania --...

The paper provides an analyses of the public finance reform in Central European Countries during the economic transition. The process of reforming public finance (covering both tax and expenditure reforms) is a long lasting one with specific features in individual countries. Nevertheless, some...

The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include bureaucracy, corruption and tax compliance, public finance in developing economies, taxation in several former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and China, taxation in the enlarged European...

Tax and benefit reform in Central and Eastern Europe / David M.G. Newbery -- Tax and benefit reform in the Czech and Slovak Republics / Christopher Heady and Stephen Smith -- Redistributive policy in a transition economy: the case of Hungary / Sarah Jarvis and Stephen Pudney -- The taxation of...

High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts. Recent empirical research shows that income and wealth inequalities in Eastern Europe since the fall of socialism increased significantly more than previously suggested....