Interstate cigarette bootlegging: Extent, revenue losses, and effects of federal intervention

National Tax Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-74

  Thursby, Jerry G ^a   Thursby, Marie C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038157100     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2000.1.04     Document Type: Article

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