Subnational tax authority : introduction and summary of evidence / Violeta Ruiz Almendral and François Vaillancourt -- Asymmetrical federalism in Spain : the challenges of financing the autonomous communities / Violeta Ruiz Almendral -- Fiscal autonomy in Scotland / Charlie Jeffrey --...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Subnational Tax Autonomy: Introduction and Summary of Evidence -- 1 Asymmetrical Federalism in Spain: The Challenges of Financing the Autonomous Communities -- 2 Fiscal Autonomy in Scotland -- 3 Asymmetrical Federalism: The Case of Belgium -- 4 The...

The genesis of this set of five papers on prefilled (or pre-populated) personal income tax returns was the observation that the Québec government had initiated in December 2007 a prefilled personal income tax program. A target group of 100,000 tax filers, 80% of whom were age 65 or older were...

There are a number of economic costs associated with taxes, some of which unfortunately, are almost always ignored or misunderstood. The direct and most visible cost of taxes is simply the tax itself. It is the amount of earnings that individuals or businesses forego when they pay taxes. Put...