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Choosing between Centralized and Decentralized Models of Tax Administration

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Jorge Martinez-Vazquez () (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University)
Andrey Timofeev () (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University)

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The international experience shows a variety of approaches to the organization and degree of decentralization in tax administration. It is quite common to observe, even in countries that are otherwise significantly decentralized as is the case in the Scandinavian Countries, a highly centralized organization of tax administration. Nevertheless, there are other countries, in small number, where tax administration is highly decentralized; in some cases, as in Germany, even central government taxes are administered by the decentralized subnational governments. The fundamental questions addressed in this paper are the following: what is the most appropriate approach to organizing the vertical structure of tax administration, and what are the determinant factors that may make an approach more or less optimal in any particular country.

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Paper provided by International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University in its series International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU with number paper0502.

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Keywords: Centralized and Decentralized Models of Tax Administration

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  1. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, 2007. "Revenue Assignments in the Practice of Fiscal Decentralization," International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0708, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. [Downloadable!]
  2. Christian Traxler & Andreas Reutter, 2008. "Apportionment, Fiscal Equalization and Decentralized Tax Enforcement," Working Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2008_21, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. [Downloadable!]
  3. Bahl, Roy & Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge, 2006. "Sequencing fiscal decentralization," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3914, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  4. Jorge Onrubia, 2006. "The Reform of the Tax Administration in Spain," International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0612, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. [Downloadable!]
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