Tax assignment: Does the practice match the theory?

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 264-280

  Bahl, Roy ^a   Cyan, Musharraf ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ADMINISTRATION; AUTONOMY; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; INCOME; POLITICAL ECONOMY; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 79958838724     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c1045r     Document Type: Article

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