Ceding Control European Integration and Consumption Taxes

As the postcommunist governments began to devise their tax systems in ways that were compatible with and supportive of their democratic and capitalist transformations, they paid close attention to the tax forms in Western Europe. In part, the East Europeans were searching for solutions to fiscal pro...

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Published inTax Politics in Eastern Europe p. 42
Main Author Appel, Hilary
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Michigan Press 28.07.2011
Subjects
Ad valorem taxes
Agricultural products
Agriculture
Biological sciences
Cigarettes
Communism
Consumption taxes
Direct taxes
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Excise taxes
Governance
Government
Income taxes
Indirect taxes
Labor economics
Occupations
Plant products
Political candidates
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Politicians
Postcommunism
Sales taxes
Taxation
Taxes
Tobacco products
Tobacco taxes
Value added taxes
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Summary:As the postcommunist governments began to devise their tax systems in ways that were compatible with and supportive of their democratic and capitalist transformations, they paid close attention to the tax forms in Western Europe. In part, the East Europeans were searching for solutions to fiscal problems. They also, however, began quickly to fuse their domestic economic transformations with their geopolitical goal of deepening ties to the West and severing ties to the East. It is striking just how early the postcommunist leaders adopted a pro-European rhetoric, with many politicians embracing the slogan of a “Return to Europe” in 1990
ISBN:9780472117765
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