Strategic fiscal interdependence: County and municipal adoptions of local option sales taxes

National Tax Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 387-416

  Burge, Gregory S ^a   Piper, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fi scal spillovers; Sales taxes; Tax competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881099530     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2012.2.05     Document Type: Article

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