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We model a game to show that the taxation level in an autocracy reflects the state¡¯s coercive power relative to people¡¯s capacity for violence. The model also specifies the mechanisms through which various factors affect relative state power. The model predicts that taxation level...
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This study describes China's tax system and the applied tax policies against the covid-19 crisis, which were the Value … Added Tax (VAT) deferral and Corporate Income Tax (CIT) deductions. China has a tax system following international standards …, having a unified and decentralized tax agency. The system has a VAT with simplified rates, Excise Taxes and a dual Personal …
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Why do absolutists decentralize power to others? We developed a signaling game model to analyze the decentralization under an authoritarian regime. The model reveals that strong rulers prefer to not offer any power decentralization, while weak rulers tend to disguise themselves as strong rulers...
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Tax extraction is often low in absolutist regimes. Why are absolutists unable to convert power into revenue? Supported …, unconstrained by rule of law and unable to commit to not predating on their tax-collecting agents (and the masses), may find it … optimal to settle for a low wage-low tax equilibrium, while permitting agents to keep extra, unmonitored taxes. Our analysis …
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centralization by examining provincial rate setting for the vehicle and vessel tax (VVT). Because all provinces have assigned VVT … decentralized, decision-making. Using spatio-econometric analyses, we find that provincial tax rate choices fail to reflect local … economic and demographic conditions and display traces of tax mimicking. Both support the hypothesis that provincial officials …
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This article reviews China's land tenure system, which is featured with differential treatment of rural and urban citizens with respect to three types of land tenure: urban land tenure, arable land tenure and rural residential land tenure. With the urban residents fully participated in the...
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This study describes China's tax system and the applied tax policies against the covid-19 crisis, which were the Value … Added Tax (VAT) deferral and Corporate Income Tax (CIT) deductions. China has a tax system following international standards …, having a unified and decentralized tax agency. The system has a VAT with simplified rates, Excise Taxes and a dual Personal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013277334
This study explores the adverse impacts of terrorism on the net Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to Pakistan …. Since 2003, terrorist violence has killed over 52,000 individuals in Pakistan. The unrelenting violence has substantially …
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Pakistan has suffered from pervasive corruption since its foundation. It deals with an unstable political atmosphere … by corruption. This paper discusses corruption in Pakistan from historical, institutional, and economic standpoints. It …
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contemporary Islamic banking in Pakistan …
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