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Taxation, Coercion and Donors: Local Government Tax Enforcement in Tanzania (Record no. 658)

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Personal name Fjeldstad, O. H.
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Title Taxation, Coercion and Donors: Local Government Tax Enforcement in Tanzania
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Place of publication United Kingdom
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press
Year of publication 2001
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Number of Pages 18p.
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Summary, etc This paper presents three propositions about tax collection by local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion involved in tax enforcement. Reciprocity does not seem to be an inherent component of the state society relationship in connection with local government taxation. Second, the extent of coercion depends on the bargaining powers of the stakeholders involved in the tax enforcement process. In particular, coercive tax enforcement is facilitated when the `bargaining powers' with respect to tax collection favour the council administration, and the elected councillors have no direct influence on collection. Third, the presence of donors in a local authority may be crucial by changing the `balance of power' in favour of the council administration, with implications for accountability, responsiveness and democratic development. These results may explain why widespread differences in revenue performance between local authorities are observed.
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Topical Term Tax Avoidance and Evasion
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Uniform Resource Identifier iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/Taxation, coercion and donors.pdf
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