A Pro-Growth Tax Reform Agenda for Eastern Europe


 

Publication Date: May 1991

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): William D. Eggers

Research Area: Banking and finance

Keywords: Europe

Type: Report

Coverage: Former communist countries

Abstract:

Tax reform is not a panacea for all the ills brought on by the decades of communism. But combined with other essential free market reforms as currency convertibility, freeing prices from state control, privatizing state-owned enterprises, liberating entrepreneurs from stifling regulation and ending government subsidies to state enterprises, a pro-growth tax agenda can help Eastern Europe move toward prosperity and political stability. This serves the interests not only of East Europeans, but of Americans as well.