CEPR held a workshop on `Taxation in Eastern Europe' in Cambridge on 15/16 May. The workshop was organized by Stephen Pudney, Assistant Director of the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge, and formed part of CEPR's research programme on Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe, which is supported by the Commission of the European Communities under its SPES and ACE programmes and by the Ford Foundation. The following papers were presented:

`Instability and Uncertainty of the Fiscal Position During Transition The Case of Poland', Stanislaw Gomulka (LSE)

`Tax Reforms in Poland', Brunon Gorecki (University of Warsaw), José Sastre-Descal (Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Paris), Christophe Starzec (Centre d'Etudes des Revenues et des Coûts, Paris) and Marian Wisniewski (University of Warsaw)

`The Role of the State, Ownership and Taxation in Transitional Economies', Athar Hussain and Nick Stern (LSE)

`Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in Hungary: Can the Tax-Benefit System Cope?', Stephen Pudney (Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge)

`Tax Reform in Czechoslovakia', Christopher Heady (University of Bath) and Stephen Smith (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)

`Simplifying the Czechoslovak Personal Income Tax', Fiona Coulter, Christopher Heady and Colin Lawson (University of Bath) and Stephen Smith (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)