Volume 19, Issue 10 (2011)                   J Tax Res 2011, 19(10): 75-96 | Back to browse issues page

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Measuring Tax Effort (A Case Study of the Middle- Income Countries)
Narsis Aminrashti * 1, Fatemeh Fahimifar2 , Ebrahim Siamiaraghi2
1- PhD in Economics and Assistant Prof. of Islamic Azad university , narsis_aminrashti@yahoo.com
2- M.A. in Economic systems planning, Islamic Azad University
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Taxes have been the most significant income sources of governments from a long time ago and one of the main concerns of governors and policymakers is optimal collecting taxes of whole existing capacities.The aim of this paper is to estimate tax capacity and to calculate tax effort among middle- income countries. Panel data method, data from 1995-2009 and Stata software have been used to estimate model coefficients and then tax effort has been measured by using these coefficients. The results show that Iran obtains the least amount of tax effort indicator among others.
Keywords: Tax Effort, Tax Capacity, Middle- income Countries, Panel- Data
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Type of Study: Research |
Received: 2011/05/31 | Accepted: 2011/09/7 | Published: 2014/03/11
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