The Russian 'flat tax' reform

Economic Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 43, 2005, Pages 397-444

  Ivanova, Anna ^a   Keen, Michael ^a   Klemm, Alexander ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; TAX REFORM; TAX SYSTEM;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33745206710     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2005.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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