The Tax System in Industrialized Countries
ISBN: 9780198293316 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the tax systems of ten countries (G7 plus Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden) over the last decade. All the main taxation areas are covered, together with a description of the underlying policy themes. The main focus is on recent and prospective tax reforms.
This book provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the tax systems of ten countries (G7 plus Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden) over the last de...
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832,78 zł |
Tax Policy: Theory and Practice in OECD Countries
ISBN: 9780199241484 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a broad analysis of standard tax policy in OECD countries in the first half of the twentieth century. It identifies broad trends in policy, summarises developments in the theory of tax policy and describes and compares policies actually adopted by various groups of countries. It is invaluable for anyone studying or involved in implementing tax policy. Public finance theory and the complexities of tax administration are kept to a minimum throughout to ensure accessibility.
This book provides a broad analysis of standard tax policy in OECD countries in the first half of the twentieth century. It identifies broad trends in...
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1299,91 zł |
The Japanese Tax System
ISBN: 9780199242566 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides English-speakers with a comprehensive description and incisive critique of the Japanese tax system. The third edition explores the Japanese government's latest round of tax reforms - a reaction to the country's prolonged period of recession following the collapse of the 'bubble' phenomenon in 1991. Two brand new chapters discuss the effect of environmental taxes and land tax reform, and much of the original data and empirical material has been updated.
This book provides English-speakers with a comprehensive description and incisive critique of the Japanese tax system. The third edition explores the ...
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976,51 zł |
Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development
ISBN: 9780199253579 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. Most of today's countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take. This volume analyses these tensions and issues, taking into account the great diversity of institutions and economic environments observed in different developing countries.
In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. Most of today's countries face town vers...
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224,25 zł |
Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation: Smoking, Drinking, Gambling, Polluting, and Driving
ISBN: 9780199278596 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excise taxes are not only convenient sources of government revenue, they can also be designed to reflect the external costs of excisable products, such as global warming, acid rain, traffic congestion, and the costs of cigarette and alcohol consumption. This book by internationally recognized experts analyzes the art of excise taxation, providing a systematic, insightful, and often provocative treatment of a major fiscal instrument that policy-makers often neglect, and that gets little attention in the professional literature.
Excise taxes are not only convenient sources of government revenue, they can also be designed to reflect the external costs of excisable products, suc...
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653,11 zł |
Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving
ISBN: 9780226110486 / Angielski / Twarda / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States is distinctive among Western countries in its reliance on nonprofit institutions to perform major social functions. This reliance is rooted in American history and is fostered by federal tax provisions for charitable giving. In this study, Charles T. Clotfelter demonstrates that changes in tax policy effected through legislation or inflation can have a significant impact on the level and composition of giving.
Clotfelter focuses on empirical analysis of the effects of tax policy on charitable giving in four major areas: individual contributions, volunteering, corporate... The United States is distinctive among Western countries in its reliance on nonprofit institutions to perform major social functions. This reliance is...
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404,59 zł |
Taxation of Business Property: Is Uniformity Still a Valid Norm?
ISBN: 9780275943103 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This newest volume in Praeger's National Tax Association series examines the taxation of business property. Experts from the corporate and academic world address the crucial matters of: the changing business property tax base and its impact on local government economic health; the emerging legal issues in business property taxation; uniformity as a tax policy objective; the enforcement of uniformity; issues concerning the valuation of business property; and the appropriate role of business property taxation. This volume will be of interest to tax specialists in business and government.
This newest volume in Praeger's National Tax Association series examines the taxation of business property. Experts from the corporate and academic... |
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372,65 zł |
Federal Tax Treatment of State and Local Securities.
ISBN: 9780313223068 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The federal income tax exemption for state and local government securities has been a controversial issue for many years. Opponents of the exemption believe that it is inequitable, reduces risk investment by high-bracket taxpayers, and costs an excessive amount to the federal government. Proponents argue that elimination of the tax exemption would make the cost of borrowing money to many state and local governments prohibitive. The purpose of the study was to try to narrow down the differences among experts in taxation and the municipal bond market on the facts and analyses with regard to... The federal income tax exemption for state and local government securities has been a controversial issue for many years. Opponents of the exemptio... |
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292,79 zł |
Expenditure Tax
ISBN: 9780415314008 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part one of this title examines the issue of expenditure tax in principle and includes chapters on the following: Income, expenditure and taxable capacity; the concept of income in economic theory; taxation and savings; taxation and risk-bearing; taxation and the incentive to work; company taxation; taxation and economic progress. Part two examines the issue of expenditure tax in practice, asking whether personal expenditure tax is practicable and putting forward a proposal for surtax reform
Part one of this title examines the issue of expenditure tax in principle and includes chapters on the following: Income, expenditure and taxable capa...
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1062,04 zł |
Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe
ISBN: 9780415322515 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past decade has seen important changes taking place in the tax regimes of many European countries. A comprehensive picture of what is happening in European fiscal systems has not been easy to find - until now. This comprehensive volume provides impressive analyses of tax systems and tax reforms in various European countries including France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. With a preface from Vito Tanzi and an impressive range of contributions, the book identifies and analyses the main common forces that drive fiscal reforms such as globalization, European reunification, and fiscal...
The past decade has seen important changes taking place in the tax regimes of many European countries. A comprehensive picture of what is happening in...
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581,60 zł |
The Archaeology of the Colonized
ISBN: 9780415369916 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the Colonized focuses on the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, looking at case studies from areas of the world not often considered in the postcolonial debate. It offers original, exciting approaches to the growing area of research in archaeology and colonialism. From the pyramids of Old Kingdom Egypt to illicit whisky distilling in nineteenth-century Scotland, and from the Roman... The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scho... |
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682,74 zł |
The Archaeology of the Colonized
ISBN: 9780415369923 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This archaeological approach to colonialism focuses on the experience of the people who were colonized. How did farmers, artisans and labourers support their families and maintain their self-respect and identity, in the face of oppressive taxation and ideological control? How did new bureaucratic procedures, taxation regimes and forced labour schemes affect their lives? The activities of the colonized are expressed in a wide range of artefacts, structures and landscapes. Tax in kind is extracted on the peasant's threshing floor; people are controlled as they travel on imperial roads; avoiding...
This archaeological approach to colonialism focuses on the experience of the people who were colonized. How did farmers, artisans and labourers suppor...
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192,13 zł |
A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
ISBN: 9780415924986 / Angielski / Twarda / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by abusive taxation and tax collecting systems around the world. Each of the chronologically arranged entries focuses on a specific historical event, analyzing its roots, and socio-economic context.
A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by...
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910,32 zł |
National Taxation for Property Management and Valuation
ISBN: 9780419153207 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an introduction to taxation in the property world, written specifically for surveyors, valuers, estate agents and property developers who require a basic understanding of the subject.
This is an introduction to taxation in the property world, written specifically for surveyors, valuers, estate agents and property developers who requ...
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556,31 zł |
Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend
ISBN: 9780444504913 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend" explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a benchmark model which reveals that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, even if the revenues are used to cut other distortionary taxes. Subsequent chapters extend the benchmark model by introducing capital, terms of trade effects, transfers, involuntary unemployment, or environmental feedbacks. Thus, the book reveals several channels through which a double-dividend can be obtained. However, it also shows the...
Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend" explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a bench...
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1040,61 zł |
The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You
ISBN: 9780520236103 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Great American Tax Dodge, a book that should infuriate and galvanize citizens everywhere, the best-selling authors of America: What Went Wrong? expose the millions of Americans who are dodging their income taxes at every honest taxpayer's expense. With the clarity, insight, and readability that earned them two Pulitzer Prizes, Donald Barlett and James Steele explain how Americans are cheating as never before, and why most are getting away with it. The authors relate the stories of a Manhattan couple who spent $1 million a month to maintain their lifestyle yet never...
In The Great American Tax Dodge, a book that should infuriate and galvanize citizens everywhere, the best-selling authors of America: What W...
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214,38 zł |
The Power to Tax: Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution
ISBN: 9780521027922 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should government's power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California's Proposition 13 brought this question very sharply into popular focus. Whether the power to tax should be restricted, and if so how, are issues of immediate policy significance. Providing a serious analysis of these issues, the authors of this 1980 book offer an approach to the understanding and evaluation of the fiscal system, one that yields profound implications. The central question becomes: how much 'power to tax' would the citizen voluntarily grant to government as a party to some...
Should government's power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California's Proposition 13 brought this question very sharpl...
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273,21 zł |
Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13
ISBN: 9780521035996 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and abroad. This book examines the causes and consequences of property tax revolts, focusing on California's experience with Proposition 13. New theoretical approaches and evidence from a comprehensive empirical study are used to highlight the equity and efficiency of property tax systems. Since property taxes are local government's main revenue source, the book includes a comparative study of the evolution of local government following property tax limitations in several states. Finally, the book considers alternatives for reform...
Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and abroad. This book examines the causes and consequences of property tax revolts, focus...
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212,49 zł |
The Tithe Maps of England and Wales
ISBN: 9780521441919 / Angielski / Twarda / 898 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tithe maps of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales are much used by historians, geographers, lawyers, planners and others who need accurate information about land and its ownership and use in the past. This book is a detailed catalog and analysis of these maps, offering an invaluable research tool for users and contributing much new information about this internationally important government survey.
The tithe maps of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales are much used by historians, geographers, lawyers, planners and others who need accurate in...
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1323,87 zł |
Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13
ISBN: 9780521461597 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and abroad. This book examines the causes and consequences of property tax revolts, focusing on California's experience with Proposition 13. New theoretical approaches and evidence from a comprehensive empirical study are used to highlight the equity and efficiency of property tax systems. Since property taxes are local government's main revenue source, the book includes a comparative study of the evolution of local government following property tax limitations in several states. Finally, the book considers alternatives for reform...
Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and abroad. This book examines the causes and consequences of property tax revolts, focus...
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485,42 zł |