How elastic is the corporate income tax base?

Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 140-163

  Gruber, Jonathan ^a,b   Rauh, Joshua ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511510823.011     Document Type: Chapter

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