In this article, the author reviews the continuing controversy over the Reagan tax cut. Republicans often assert that it was so expansionary that there was no revenue loss, something the Reagan administration itself never claimed. The truth is that the tax cut lost a lot of revenue, but helped...

Why do the promises of tax bills seemingly fade so quickly and why do revenue-raising provisions often fall short? That question has no single answer. However, part of the revenue shortfall may be attributable to a broad class of tax provisions that involve preemption by policymakers of...

The existing empirical literature on the US federal revenue-expenditure nexus has had mixed findings. Amongst those papers presenting evidence in favor of causation running from taxes to expenditures, support for the conventional, Friedman-type tax-spend hypothesis is nearly ubiquitous. Evidence...

The article covers the rationale, organisation and characteristics of tax amnesties conducted in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, and Russia, as well as the potential advantages and disadvantages of tax amnesties and an analysis on the results of tax amnesties implemented in transition...

This research seeks to comparatively identify the revenue performances of the oil and non-oil tax revenue with regards to Nigeria's GDP. In comparing these independent variables against the GDP, it is observed that there has been umpteenth reliance of government tax revenue and the GDP on oil...

How does conflict affect tax revenue mobilization? This paper uses a newly updated dataset to explore longitudinal trends of tax revenue mobilization prior to, during, and after conflict periods in a selection of conflict-affected states since 1980. This medium-N trend analysis is complemented...

How does conflict affect tax revenue mobilization? This paper uses a newly updated dataset to explore longitudinal trends of tax revenue mobilization prior to, during, and after conflict periods in a selection of conflict-affected states since 1980. This medium-N trend analysis is complemented...

To understand the cyclical movements of value-added tax (VAT) revenues in advanced economies, this paper analyzes changes in the C-efficiency ratio by decomposing it into changes in the compliance and policy gaps between 2000 and 2014. The results from a panel of EU member countries and Japan...

An early cross-country, empirical analysis of value-added tax revenues on a sample of 34 countries estimates a model that can be used to predict revenues in countries contemplating the introduction of the VAT. It also confirms conventional wisdom from theoretical and case studies. The key...