How tax complexity and enforcement affect the equity and efficiency of the income tax

National Tax Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-150

  Kaplow, Louis ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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