This article aims to analyze and evaluate tax policy of 10 post communist countries of the EU, especially the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic, during the their first 5 years in the community (Bulgaria and Romania, which joined later, are not members throughout the analysis period) through the...

The relative merits of direct vs. indirect taxes have been largely debated since the advent of public finance theory. The current phase of the discussion concerns the relative ability of these two kinds of taxes to creating a more growth-friendly environment. The prevailing view favours indirect...

The constant motion in which the economic environment is found, the financial implications of the economic crisis on it, the need to correlate the existing legislative provisions in functional structures, the increasing need of the state for financial resources are just a few factors that...

This paper quantifies the variability of tax elasticities in Lithuania using two alternative methods: rolling regressions and pooled mean group estimator. The analysis is motivated by the systematic variation of tax revenues observed over the economic cycle in the recent past. Both methods...

Since the early 1990s, major tax administration reforms have been implemented in the Francophone countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with significant support from the IMF and development partners. While the reforms have contributed to an increase in revenues, attention is still needed to address a...

This paper discusses how to enhance automatic stabilizers without increasing the size of government. We distinguish between permanent changes in the parameters of the tax and expenditure system (e.g., changes in tax progressivity) that will enhance the traditional automatic stabilizer, and...

This article presents evidence of the existence and magnitude of tax evasion in Greece, as derived from the analysis of tax data for the year 2009. The problem is chronic and widespread, demonstrating serious weaknesses in the tax collection mechanism both for direct and indirect taxes. Dealing...

It is out of question that the German state is chronically underfinanced. There is a public poverty in form of government borrowing on the one hand and on the other hand there is an unequal divided property for the private people. The chronic-structural under financing of the state is not due to...

This paper presents a unique tax revenue dataset for Sub-Saharan Africa, which main innovation is the level of detail it provides about tax revenue sources for a large number of countries (41) and over a long time period (1980-2010). The paper describes how the dataset was constructed,...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of a content publication Jan Široký “Taxation in the European Union". Contribution comes to the conclusion that the book contains an interpretation of fundamental aspects of the EU institutions and Community law, in particular, directives and...