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Comparative Tax Law Guide, Kim Brooks
Comparative Tax Law Guide, Kim Brooks
OER Texts
This extended bibliography is designed to support comparative tax law study by students, policy-makers, and tax practitioners. Studying comparative tax law is pure joy. And in addition to that, it enables you to:
- more deeply understand your own tax system and context;
- learn about another country’s system and context;
- draw general conclusions about tax law;
- press for or support tax law change;
- facilitate tax law harmonization or coordination among jurisdictions;
- delve into the role of tax in the spread of higher-order values like fairness, equality, transparency, or privacy;
- explain why a country’s tax laws are the way they are; and …
Tax Incentives For Attracting Foreign Direct Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study Of Ghana And Kenya, Patrick Ofori
Tax Incentives For Attracting Foreign Direct Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study Of Ghana And Kenya, Patrick Ofori
LLM Theses
Developing countries have increasingly resorted to the use of tax incentives to attract FDI, despite existing evidence of the shortcomings of tax incentives. In sub-Saharan Africa, tax incentives are a prominent feature of many investment codes. Sub-Saharan African countries find tax incentives as a means of attracting FDI because there are no viable alternatives per se, and they believe that tax incentives can be structured to ensure that FDI advances socio-economic and technological development. But the reliance on tax incentives at the expense of maximizing domestic tax revenue poses a challenge to sustainable development. This study examines Ghana and Kenya …