Corporate tax shield or fraud? Insight from Nigeria

International Journal of Law and Management

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-20

  Ebeh Ezeoha, Abel ^a   Ogamba, Ebele ^b  

^a EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Corporate taxation; Debt financing; Fraud; Law; Nigeria; Tax havens

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952488027     PISSN: 1754243X     EISSN: 17542448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542431011018516     Document Type: Article

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