This study investigates tax buoyancies in Indonesia. It analyzes the cointegration relationship between the regional gross domestic product (RGDP), along with several control variables, and tax revenues. Focusing on personal income tax (PIT), corporate income tax (CIT), and value-added tax...

Over the years many proposals for global taxes – taxes levied on a world-wide basis – have been made. None has been successful, essentially because one cannot have global taxes without a global government. This paper first reviews some of the major global tax proposals and then considers...

In recent weeks several Iowa policymakers, leaders, and citizens have become interested in proposals involving significant policy reforms and tax increment financing. Much of the discussion is based on the results of a single study based on aggregate approaches that were never designed for the...