Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia

Luigi Bernardi is a Professor of Public Finance at the University of Pavia, Italy. Angela Fraschini is a Professor of Public Finance at the University of Eastern Piedmont- Italy. Parthasarathi Shome is an Adviser to the Union Finance Minister, Ministry of Finance, India.

• 1. An Overview of Taxation 2. Main Tax Policy Issues 3. The Control of Tax Evasion and the Role of Tax Administration 4. Fiscal Federalism in the Big Developing Countries: China and India 5. What about the Countries’ Fiscal Sustainability? 6. The Facts and the Political Economy of the Welfare Without the Welfare State 7. China 8. India 9. Japan 10. Malaysia 11. South Korea 12. Thailand