The use of certainty threshold criteria for tax compliance enforcement in ambiguous tax scenarios

Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-28

  Mason, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

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