The inefficiency of the tax collection system has also contributed to the problem.
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An international accounting agency can help make a tax collection system more transparent.
The agreement will supposedly provide a uniform sales-tax collection system that would apply to all retailers, online and offline alike.
The country's tax-collection system, notoriously porous to begin with, has sprung several new leaks in the past year.
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Yet though most of the Philippines' problems stem from its feeble tax-collection system, Mrs Arroyo has tried to tame the deficit by launching an austerity programme.
Pakistan, with its small tax base, poor system of tax collection, and reliance on foreign aid, faces no real prospects for sustainable economic growth.
And the most notable thing about the introduction of that system there, down from the almost impenetrable Soviet tax system, is that revenue collection went up when this low rate and simple system came in.
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They propose a smaller parliament and civil service, a new electoral law, a better system of tax collection and measures to stimulate the economy.
Mr Khatami says that a lot of the extra spending will be financed by economic growth of 5% in 2001, as well as by eye-catching improvements in Iran's terrible system of tax collection.
The ensuing face-off with police was rooted in a sense of anger that the government were imposing swinging cutbacks on the public sector as pay and benefits were reduced, job vacancies went unfilled and a tougher tax collection and higher tax rate system was introduced.
His job was to modernise data collection for the outdated tax system.
Online retailers would have to keep track of more than 9, 000 sales-tax regimes and those Internet companies domiciled in states like Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon and Delaware that have no sales tax would have to build a collection system.
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But in between came the defeat by the unions of Christian Sautter, Mr Strauss-Kahn's successor, in his attempt to reform a tax system which has different institutions for assessment and collection and is therefore both inefficient and costly.
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