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...

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.

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...

"This paper reports the results of experiments designed to examine whether a taste for fairness affects people's preferred tax structure. Building on the Fehr and Schmidt (1999) model, we devise a simple test for the presence of social preferences in voting for alternative tax structures. The...