Towards a negative income tax system for Australia

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-257

  Dawkins, Peter ^a   Beer, Gillian ^a   Harding, Ann ^b   Johnson, David ^b   Scutella, Rosanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INCOME; TAX SYSTEM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032446184     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00069     Document Type: Article

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