"Value Added Tax (VAT) is the backbone of the EU Member States tax systems. However, the rules for taxing Intra-Community delivery created opportunities for so called 'Missing Trader Intra Community fraud' (MTIC). Together with shadow economy' they represent VAT noncompliance - proxied by so...

This handbook evaluates the persistent problems in the fiscal systems of state and local governments and what can be done to solve them. Each chapter provides a description of the discipline area, examines major developments in policy practices and research, and opines on future prospects.

In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that analyzes whether state and local governments have 'gone...