Tax Structure and Corruption: Cross-Country Evidence
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- Yongzheng Liu & Haibo Feng, 2015. "Tax structure and corruption: cross-country evidence," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 162(1), pages 57-78, January.
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Keywords
Tax Structure; Direct versus Indirect Taxes; Tax Complexity; Corruption;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2016-02-23 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2016-02-23 (Public Finance)
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