This book develops a theoretical framework that refines and integrates the classic concepts of business's instrumental (political) power and structural (investment) power to explain the scope and fate of tax initiatives targeting economic ...

Offers a comprehensive, region-wide analysis of the politics of taxation in Latin America to make reforms politically palatable and sustainable.

Collection of articles providing an insight in the current status of tax treaties in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and dealing with holding companies and technical assistance, royalty and service payments.

From the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Latin American tax policy provided rich lessons for other reforming countries.

The study reviews the objectives of the Alliance for Progress, investigates the prevailing tax systems in the Latin American republics, and offers recommendations for tax-reform efforts to harmonize tax policy with the economic development ...

This new high profile report provides details of taxes paid on wages in twenty economies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The essays included provide diverse and representative insights for a new understanding of taxation in Latin America and highlight the bottlenecks to the development of sustainable tax systems in the region, exploring new links between ...

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Tax reform in Latin America during the 1980s emphasized broad-based, low-rate consumption taxes over steeply progressive income and property taxes, primarily to simplify the tax structure and facilitate tax administration.