Black money can be totally eliminated if a new tax system called "TOP Tax system" is adopted and implemented by all nations. Excerpt: - We all know that black money is being generated by tax evasion through unreported/shadow/hidden accounts and also by corruption and fake currency. Tax evasion...

Progressive taxation has historically been discussed primarily in the context of developed, Western nations. This article considers its application in two developing, nonwestern economies, emphasizing differences in political, economic, and (especially) cultural contexts and their effect on the...

Value Added Tax (VAT) is a type of indirect tax that is imposed on goods and services. In one of the most important reforms of the country’s public finances in over the past 50 years, India has finally launched much delayed Value Added Tax (VAT) from 1st April, 2005 in 21 states. VAT has...

Goods and services tax (GST) is a broad based and a single comprehensive tax levied at every stage of the production and distribution chain with applicable set-off in respect of the tax remitted at previous stages. It is basically a tax on final consumption integrates the union excise duties,...

The costs of doing business internationally are many. Economizing on such costs is essential to be globally competitive. In this context, a rather overlooked area of cost reduction is the refund of global VAT incurred abroad on business expenses. A large number of exporters across the world do...

Global experience shows that GST serves as a best tax system that contributes towards the revenue generating activities of the government; which might be one of the possible reason for being implemented in India. As implementation of GST is getting momentum in India. This study is attempts to...

Fears that the movement to GST would add to inflation have been unfounded. In this study we ex-ante estimate the impact the movement to GST would have on inflation and show that it would be very marginal at best. The inflation argument to have multiple rates is therefore weak. The impact on the...

The objective of this essay is to examine and explain possible drawbacks of the goods and services tax (GST) introduced in India on July 1, 2017. To get a comparative picture of its vulnerability to tax evasion, data for the OECD countries in the 1990s and also the Indian state VAT earlier this...

GST as introduced in India being a destination based tax, does not encourage regions to vigorously promote manufacturing and tradable services industries. Being in the midst of its economic transformation, and given the subnational character of most states (regions), it is important that the...

This paper examines the taxation of labour income in five key emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa (the “BIICS” countries). The paper highlights the key features of the taxation of labour income in these countries, and then uses this information to model the...