This work provides experimental evidence of the determinants of tax compliance in Mexico, and compares them to the results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both countries are contrasted to the predictions of the...

In the last years, Latin America has been immersed in a process of great democratic openness that generated a demand for more fiscal decentralization. Within this subject, this paper has the goal of contributing to the discussion on tax responsibilities devolution to local governments....

The author explains the relevance of the budget and its relation with the National Plan of Development, as well as its focusing in the Account of the Federal Public Property, which allows to locate better for aims of the communitarian life, the actions of government with base in the investments...

The adoption of the electronic government system by the public administration has created a new relationship between the citizenry and the Government. However, in the case of Mexico, the question of whether the electronic government system can actually improve its transparency has still not been...

In order to analyze the transfers policy among different levels of government, first it is necessary to calculate the capacity and fiscal effort of the specific region of study. This paper reviews the different methods to compute these two concepts and it also shows how the availability of...