Gambling Taxes

Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation: Smoking, Drinking, Gambling, Polluting, and Driving

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Clotfelter, Charles T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

External costs; Gambling taxes; Lotteries; Slot machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920067109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199278598.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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