Company Tax Structure and Company Tax Incidence

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-100

  Head, John G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Company tax integration; Corporate tax incidence; Dividend relief systems; Imputation; New view of dividends; Schedular income tax

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002941127     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008600431739     Document Type: Article

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