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Tax Arrangements and Intergovernmental Transfers

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 1977
The significance of intergovernmental tax arrangements in a federation can only be appreciated in relation to intergovernmental functional responsibilities and the cooresponding financial outlays. The financial outcome of the allocation of taxes and functions among governments in the Australian federation in 1973-74 is summarized in Table 1 ...
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Intergovernmental Transfers in India

1997
The Constitution enables the appointment of the Finance Commission every 5 years by the President of India to recommend devolution of Union taxes and grants in aid to the States to offset vertical and horizontal imbalances. The Commission has the mandate to recommend measures to supplement the resources of local bodies as well.
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Assessment of intergovernmental revenue transfers

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1993
Abstract This paper employs data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study intergovernmental transfers of revenue from central to local government, termed local aid in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The pattern of transfers is evaluated relative to DBA efficiency measures.
Agha Iqbal Ali, Catherine S. Lerme, Robert A. Nakosteen   +2 more
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Are intergovernmental transfers in China equalizing?

China Economic Review, 2012
Abstract Since 1994, China's central government has implemented a sequence of fiscal recentralization measures to increase its equalization capacity and reduce regional income disparities. However, the effect of intergovernmental transfers on equalization has been called into question by anecdotal evidence that seems to suggest that transfers from ...
Bihong Huang, Kang Chen
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and the Environment

2009
Provision of environmental services involves spatial externalities. The costs of provision are borne at the level of provision, but the benefits are realized on a larger scale. Mismatch between the decision-making responsibilities and costs and benefits has been considered a cause for the underprovision of the services.
Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Principles

2019
This chapter presents conceptual guidance on the design of fiscal transfers. It reviews the principles of intergovernmental finance, with a view to drawing some general lessons of relevance to policymakers and practitioners. It provides a taxonomy of grants, their possible impacts on local fiscal behavior, and the accountability of grant recipients to ...
Harry Kitchen, Melville McMillan, Anwar Shah   +2 more
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Intergovernmental Transfers and Pareto Optimality [PDF]

, 1972
This paper will examine a variety of models in which the affected governments modify their behavior in response to spillover benefits. Initiallly, governments will adjust to the 'income effects' of benefit spill-ins, but it will be shown that intergovernmental compensation will generally be required in order to achieve Pareto optimality.
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Do intergovernmental transfers boost intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022
Lijie Song
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How do fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal transfers affect energy consumption in China?

Energy and Environment, 2023
Liangliang Liu
exaly  

Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and CO2emissions in China

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2022
Liangliang Liu
exaly