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Spain’s government has introduced ambitious consolidation measures, which should yield a sizeable improvement in discretionary fiscal efforts. Should budgetary outcomes fall short of targets, the government should stand ready to introduce further measures, as announced. Such measures could...
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For more than half a century, scholars and international agencies have been making recommendations about taxation in …
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The “smartest” development policy needs to be underpinned by “smart” tax policy. However, the best tax policy in the world is worth little if it cannot be implemented effectively. What can be done, to a considerable extent, inevitably determines what is done. Increasing tax revenues...
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Strengthening subnational governments is high on the policy agenda of many developing countries. From an economics perspective, the most important potential benefit from decentralization is the increased efficiency (and consequent welfare gain) that comes from moving governance closer to the...
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In this paper we review both positive and normative aspects of taxation. We examine how to study why taxes and revenue … taxation. In dealing with both aspects of the tax literature, we attempt to set out a plan for a more complete and … comprehensive analysis of taxation in the face of collective choice than is attempted in most of the available literature on fiscal …
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This paper reviews the analytical and empirical evidence on certain issues in commodity tax design that have not received much attention. These include the impact on optimal commodity taxes of allowing the following: (i)non linear Engel curves, (ii)Household composition and child subsidy,...
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In this paper a framework of tax reform requirements for Viet Nam is developed based on theories of taxation … then used to analyze the structure and system of taxation in Viet Nam at the present stage reform. The paper concludes that …
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costs of taxation, with special reference to VAT (including evasion and fraud) in the European Union. …
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history, and describes principles of tax administration and the construction of schedules. Tax shifting, optimal taxation … theory, and questions of tax justice are considered in depth. The book also contains a theory of business taxation and an … elaborate treatment of international taxation …
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