Tax Law and Public Opinion: Explaining IRC v Duke of Westminster

Studies in the History of Tax Law: Volume 2

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 183-221

  Likhovski, Assaf ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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