Active Ghosts: Nil-filing in Rwanda
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Tax compliance; Tax administration; RCT; Nil-filing; Taxpayer behaviour;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
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