En 2001 le gouvernement a adopté une réforme de l’impôt des personnes physiques. Cette réforme comprend quatre grands axes. Le premier axe vise une baisse de la pression fiscale sur le travail, le second axe a trait à la neutralité vis-à-vis du choix du mode de vie, le troisième axe...

A tax system is an arbitrage between desirable properties, three of them especially in the Musgrave tradition, efficiency, equity and stability. Although, in the past, national legislators could make such an arbitrage independently, now it is strongly influenced by globalisation and fiscal...

Canada's population, a tenth that of the United States, is perched close to the U.S. northern border, tightly but asymmetrically tied to U.S. information networks. However, trade, capital and population mobility remains an order of magnitude tighter among provinces than between provinces and...

It is a well-established fact that mothers' labour force participation reacts differently todifferent types of family benefits. It is also already well-known that cultural and religiousfactors have an impact on their labour force participation. But does the labour forcereaction to family...

In this paper a model of taxation of foreign source corporate income is developed, when the output market is not competitive. Profit shifting policies, similar to those in the new trade literature, are also present in the case of foreign direct investment (FDI). There are, however, important...

This paper analyzes the economic effect of the implantation of the destination principle in the collection of the ICMS and its implications on the poverty and the regional inequality. The implantation would be made in three stages: in 2005, the interstate tax would be reduced in 25%, falling 25%...

Several institutional changes in the last 20 years have imposed to the public administrators the adoption of several policies intended to qualify the State for the new economic order. The expenditure control has turned to be central in the political economy. Regarding the Brazilian states, a...