Rethinking Subnational Taxes : A New Look At Tax Assignment /

The assignment of revenues in most developing and transitional countries to the central government has arguably facilitated irresponsible behavior by some subnational governments. One way to relieve this problem is to strengthen subnational tax regimes. The paper proposes two approaches to accomplis...

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主要作者: Bird, Richard
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/165
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a The assignment of revenues in most developing and transitional countries to the central government has arguably facilitated irresponsible behavior by some subnational governments. One way to relieve this problem is to strengthen subnational tax regimes. The paper proposes two approaches to accomplish such strengthening in developing countries. The first-most applicable to large countries with important regional governments-is to establish subnational value-added taxes (VATs); the second is to replace the various unsatisfactory state and local taxes imposed on business by a low-rate value-added tax levied on the basis of income (production, origin) rather than consumption (destination). 
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