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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1. Verfasser: Keen, Michael
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/174
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF