Tax compliance costs: A business-administration perspective

FinanzArchiv

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-230

  Eichfelder, Sebastian ^a   Schorn, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cash accounting; E filing; Outsourcing; Tax advice; Tax complexity; Tax compliance costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864065992     PISSN: 00152218     EISSN: 16140974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1628/001522112X639981     Document Type: Article

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