Tax evasion and the optimum general income tax

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-249

  Cremer, Helmuth ^a   Gahvari, Firouz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal taxation; Tax evasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001305543     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(95)01525-6     Document Type: Article

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