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...

The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include bureaucracy, corruption and tax compliance, public finance in developing economies, taxation in several former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and China, taxation in the enlarged European...