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Territorial versus worldwide corporate taxation: Implications for developing countries

In: Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link?

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  • Thornton Matheson
  • Victoria Perry
  • Chandara Veung

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Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus on developing and applying new modeling techniques to country-specific data.

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  • Thornton Matheson & Victoria Perry & Chandara Veung, 2014. "Territorial versus worldwide corporate taxation: Implications for developing countries," Chapters, in: Richard M. Bird & Jorge Martinez-Vazquez (ed.), Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link?, chapter 5, pages 147-169, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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