VAT, Tariffs, and Withholding : Border Taxes and Informality in Developing Countries /

This paper explores the implications of a distinctive feature of the value added tax (VAT) that is stressed by practitioners but essentially ignored by theorists: that it functions, in part, as a tax on the purchases of informal operators from formal sector businesses and, not least, on their import...

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Autore principale: Keen, Michael
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/174
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF