Public finance and taxation Books

Book SynopsisOffers a toolkit for assessing the readiness of national development finance institutions (DFIs) for delivering credible development impact and creating markets. It applies this toolkit to Baiterek, the National Financial Holding of DFIs in Kazakhstan, to derive policy options and practical recommendations in the given country context.

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Book SynopsisJonathan Schwarz is a Barrister practicing at Temple Tax Chambers in London. His practice focuses on international tax disputes as counsel and as an expert and advises on solving cross-border tax problems. Before practising as a Barrister, he spent 10 years in two major London Law firms as a tax partner. Prior to that, he practised in Canada including seven years running the London office of a large Canadian law firm. Over the period, he has gained hands-on, practical experience of cross-border tax problems and an international perspective on most areas of taxation.

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Book SynopsisTaxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it's about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political ""no-go zone"" and how changes in taxation are changing Canada. They challenge the view that any tax is a bad tax and provide broad directions for fairer and smarter approaches. This is a book that will be of interest to anyone concerned with public policy and public affairs, economics, and political science and to anyone interested in challenging the conventional wisdom that lower taxes and smaller government are the cures to what ails us.Trade Review"How much are we willing to pay to live in a good and prosperous country? Do we have a tax system that is fair and efficient? What public goods and services do we want our governments to provide? If democracies exist only by the virtue of the engagement of citizens, then we need to have the courage to have a new conversation about taxation. Read this book. Get informed by experts on the politics, economics, and social dimensions of taxation. Tell your friends to read it. Then have a conversation with your member of parliament. The future of Canada will be better for it." -- Kevin Page, Canada's first parliamentary budget officer; Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair, University of Ottawa"What happened to the Canada that could solve national problems, support people in hard times, and improve life for each successive generation? This book provides the answer: twenty years of cumulative tax cuts have undermined the can-do Canada our parents and grandparents built. Better still it points the way out of this cul-de-sac, beginning with an honest conversation about how we pay for the nation we want to be. It can't start soon enough." -- Carol Goar, 'The Toronto Star'Table of Contents Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada, edited by Alex Himelfarb and and Jordan Himelfarb Preface Introduction: Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word Alex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb Part 1: The Conversation Today Chapter 1: The Economic Consequences of Taxing (and Spending) Jim Stanford Chapter 2: Taxes and Transfers in Canada: The Federal Dimension Robin Boadway Chapter 3: Taxes and Public Services Hugh Mackenzie Chapter 4: Benefits from Public Services Hugh Mackenzie Chapter 5: Canadian Public Opinion on Taxes Frank Graves Part 2: How We Got Here Chapter 6: Taxation and the Neo-liberal Counter-Revolution: The Canadian Case Matt Fodor Chapter 7: A Brief Potted History of Ottawa's Tax Cut Mania Eugene Lang and Philip DeMont Chapter 8: Tax Cuts and Other Cheap Parlour Tricks Trish Hennessey Part 3: A Different Take on Taxes Chapter 9: Towards A Fair Canadian Tax System Marc Lee and Iglika Ivanova Chapter 10: Carbon Taxes: Can a Good Policy Become Good Politics? Stéphane Dion Chapter 11: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference: The Case of Financial Transaction Taxes Toby Sanger Chapter 12: We Need to Simplify and Re-focus the Tax System C. Scott Clark Part 4: How to Get There Chapter 13: Canada's Conservative Ideological Infrastructure: Brewing a Cup of Cappuccino Conservatism Paul Saurette and Shane Gunster Conclusion Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEven before the advent of COVID19, India's economy was in a depression. The condition of vast masses of people, particularly those in the informal sector, was grave. Then the Indian government, responding to the COVID pandemic, imposed the most stringent lockdown measures in the world. The lockdown had a particularly severe impact on the majority of India's people, who number well over one billion. At the same time, the Indian government, compared to other world governments, has provided virtually no financial aid to cushion economic blows to its population. Crisis and Predation explains that this shocking tightfistedness stems from the fact that global financial interests, as well as India’s ruling neofascist government, explicitly oppose any sizable expansion of government spending by India. Crisis and Predation, a project of the Mumbai based Research Unit for Political Economy, lays out in meticulous and harrowing detail the economic – and human – crisis currently unfolding in India. As the COVID situation unfolds and pandemic deaths skyrocket, prevailing emergency conditions encourage reliance on security forces, state surveillance, detention of political activists, and censorship of independent media. And yet, this book contends, India could defy the pressures of global finance in order to address the basic needs of its people, an objective within the reach of India's present material capacity. But this would require imposing controls on destabilizing flows of foreign capital and being prepared to forgo foreign capital flows in the future, in other words, a course of democratic national development. For that, Indian rulers would need just what they currently lack: a positive vision of democracy and class alliance to bring it about. This hard hitting and carefully researched book, offering devastating financial analysis, also offers hope for change.

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