Is the VAT a money machine?

National Tax Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 905-928

  Keen, Michael ^a   Lockwood, Ben ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33947150443     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2006.4.09     Document Type: Article

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