While production foundered and businesses and individuals indulged in a pattern of universal tax evasion, the new Russia supported its outward stability on the same basis as the old Soviet Union had: it floated on a slick sea of profits from the oil and gas industries.
An exposé in the New York Times last year revealed a pattern of audacious tax fraud stretching even further back.
But for most observers, Mr Orban's internet tax fits into a pattern of using taxes and regulations as levers to control independent economic and social activity, part of what Mr Orban this summer called a move to turn Hungary into an "illiberal state".
Sweden's tax authority is using SPSS's software to analyse the patterns of mistakes in tax returns so as to provide better guidance and improve the design of tax forms.
The results show the relevance of specific audit patterns on tax compliance.
And that pattern of placing tax-credit projects in communities with disproportionately high black and Latino populations has been consistent over time, the data shows.
How much you gain from converting depends on your own economic situation, when you take Social Security, whether tax rates are increased, the general pattern of your marginal tax rates, and your ability to alter your future tax rates.
We also provide a brief overview of our identification [End Page 143] of the motivations for tax changes and of our findings about the patterns of legislated tax changes in the postwar era.
