Description: Taxation and Development

Taxation and Development

For more than half a century, scholars and international agencies have been making recommendations about taxation in developing countries. The advice economists have offered to developing countries has changed over time, particularly regarding inco...

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Main Author:	Bird, Richard
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES CAPITAL GAINS CAPITAL INFLOWS CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSUMPTION TAXES CORPORATE INCOME TAX DECENTRALIZATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT BANK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL SECTOR FINANCIAL STRUCTURE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOREIGN INVESTMENT FUTURES INCOME INCOME TAX INCOME TAXES INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTING MARKET FAILURES MICRODATA OPTIMAL TAXATION PARTICULAR COUNTRIES PARTICULAR COUNTRY POLICY ACTIONS POLICY CHANGES POLICY DISCUSSION POLICY INSTRUMENT POLICY MAKERS POLICY OBJECTIVES POLICY OUTCOMES POLICY PROCESS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS POLICY REFORM POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC POLICY RESOURCE ALLOCATION REVENUE REQUIREMENT SAVINGS SMALL BUSINESSES SOCIAL CAPITAL SUBNATIONAL TAX TAX ADMINISTRATION TAX CONCESSIONS TAX EFFORT TAX EVASION TAX POLICIES TAX POLICY TAX RATES TAX RATIO TAX REFORM TAX REGIMES TAX REVENUE TAX REVENUES TAX STRUCTURES TAX SYSTEM TAX SYSTEMS TAXATION TAXATIONTHEORY TAXPAYERS TRANSACTION TRANSACTION COSTS VALUE ADDED TAX
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/10/12840719/taxation-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10150

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Summary:	For more than half a century, scholars and international agencies have been making recommendations about taxation in developing countries. The advice economists have offered to developing countries has changed over time, particularly regarding income and consumption taxes. Why? What do we know now about taxes and developing countries that we did not know 50 years ago? What do we still not know that we really should know? What should scholars and international agencies do if they wish to make tax policy recommendations that are economically sensible and likely to prove feasible, acceptable, and helpful in practice? This brief note offers some tentative answers to these complex questions.

Taxation and Development

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