Tax doesn't have to be taxing: London's 'onshore' finance industry and the fiscal spaces of a global crisis

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1287-1304

  Wainwright, Thomas ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; NATIONAL ECONOMY; TAX SYSTEM;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960003281     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43528     Document Type: Article

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