The distribution of income tax noncompliance

National Tax Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 397-418

  Johns, Andrew ^a   Slemrod, Joel ^b  

^a Internal Revenue Service   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Income distribution; Tax evasion; Tax gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655207112     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2010.3.01     Document Type: Article

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