Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus on developing and applying new modeling techniques to...

Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide-ranging consequences. This edited volume presents original...

pt. I. Introduction to the volume -- pt. II. A review and critique of the existing literature -- pt. III. Expanding the standard theory of compliance -- pt. IV. Empirical evidence on financial incentives -- pt. V. Empirical evidence on governance -- pt. VI. Case studies.

Presumptive taxation of the hard-to- / Victor Thuronyi -- 'Sizing' the problem of the hard-to-tax / Friedrich Schneiderb -- Is it really so hard to tax the hard-to-tax? The context and role of presumptive taxes / Sally Wallace -- Discussant comment / William Randolph -- Mapping the US tax...

This paper reviews the literature on tax assignment in decentralized countries. Ideally, own-source revenues should be sufficient to enable at least the richest subnational governments to finance from their own resources all locally-provided services that primarily benefit local residents....

Excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco have long been a dependable and significant revenue source in many countries. More recently, considerable attention has been paid to the way in which such taxes may also be used to attain public health objectives by reducing the consumption of products with...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- One. Public Finance and Economic Development -- 1. Public Finance and Development in Colombia -- 2. The Developmental Task of Tax Policy -- Two. Tax Structure Reform -- 3. Growth, Equity, and the Income Tax -- 4. Taxation and the Allocation of...