Taxpayers' Perceptions of Practitioners: Finding One Who is Effective and Does the Right Thing?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-387

  Sakurai, Yuka ^a   Braithwaite, Valerie ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ideal tax preparer; Moral obligation; Tax minimization; Taxpayer tax practitioner relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346671078     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025641518700     Document Type: Article

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