From 1967-1982, Canada's equalization program was based on a formula which ensured that all provinces had access to national average revenues per capita for a wide set of revenue sources. The Representative Tax System (RTS) formula was replaced in 1982 by a new Representative Average Standard...

Discusses some of the possible effects on state and local governments of the elimination of sales tax deductibility and of some of the other important tax policy changes that have occurred in the recent tax reform.

Acting in the interest of their residents, U.S. states have incentives to impose taxes on the profits of corporations owned by nonresidents, within limits imposed by federal statutes and by the Constitution. This paper presents a model within which a state — using an apportionment formula that...

Medicaid spending has become a major element in state budgets and support from federal Medicaid grants is now a main source of state government funding. We discuss recent, ongoing, and prospective reforms of intergovernmental finances and regulations, including the 1996 welfare reform, the...

Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...