An initiative, high expectations A few days ago, towards the end of the year, I was talking with a colleague who is a former tax administration official and who now works for a private company in the area of information technologies as applied to tax administrations. The difficulties that exist…
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Example in effective carbon taxation. OECD’s 2015 economic surveys recommends to Latin American developing countries, among other, “to make tax policy more progressive, more efficient and greener”. One key aspect of Greening the tax system is “adjusting the tax rates of the fuels to reflect their environmental impact”. The successful…
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A post as unnecessary as important I don’t remember precisely the day when, for the first time, I heard that old statement that already sounds like a cliché, that if an information system allows junk to enter, it will only produce junk. It is just obvious. Achieving adequate levels in…
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Proposal Taxpayers are responsible for paying taxes in order to use public services. Nevertherless, on many occasions, the distribution of public expenditure is not always as citizens would like, leading to criticism, which could be diminished if they were able to take part into the distribution/design of public expenditure. Due…
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A picture, a thousand words This post will be short. It is a kind of extension of a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago. I was in the office of a Manager and we were talking on the structure of the organization and the complexities surrounding the process…
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What news with the SAT in Mexico? The suggestive title of this series’ original post paraphrases the charismatic Head of the SAT of Mexico, Aristóteles Núñez, in the event on Digital taxation that the SAT in conjunction with AMEXIPAC organized last year. In the second edition of this event, in…
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