Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce

National Tax Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 413-427

  Goolsbee, Austan ^a,b,c   Zittrain, Jonathan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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