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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Autor principal: Keen, Michael
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/174
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF