Death by a thousand cuts: The fight over taxing inherited wealth

Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-378

  Graetz, Michael J ^a   Shapiro, Ian ^a  

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