Tax Expenditure Measurements A CIAT´s new publication was launched at our Technical Conference in Lisbon (Portugal). This is the Handbook of Best Practices on Tax Expenditure Measurements (click here to download 5MB), which reflects the efforts of the working group formed for this purpose at the end of 2009. This…
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Musings over voluntary compliance I was reading a very interesting article in a science magazine about some ideas a group of researches are trying to prove: To some extent, behavior can be contagious, and for some things, wild viral contagious. This is not a twenty first century re-imagination of that…
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The Vision of International Organizations The mobilization of new fiscal resources is permanently cited in international tax forums as one of the requirements for developing countries to achieve strong, sustained and inclusive growth. However, more than half of sub-Saharan African countries and not a few of Asia and Latin America…
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Two plus two makes four. Four plus two makes six. I can clearly remember the sunny day at the beach when my father made me repeat several times this short poem by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant…
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…but certainly Blogs with a hundred thousand hits It is likely that this is not the first post you read on CIATalk. If so, you contributed for the blog to have reached as of today, July 1st, 2011, one hundred thousand hits. In these 9 months of existence, its forty-one…
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Recently we update CIATData information As usual, the analysis of the new information raises issues for discussion that at times are considered closed. On this occasion, they deal with the vision and mission of seventeen (17) Latin American tax administrations. Quite interestingly one observes how the traditional guidelines of the…
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