Would tax evasion and tax avoidance undermine a national retail sales tax?

National Tax Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 167-182

  Murray, Matthew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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