Small business tax policy, informality, and tax evasion -- evidence from Georgia
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Debt Markets; Taxation&Subsidies; Microfinance; Emerging Markets; Access to Finance;All these keywords.
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2014-09-05 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-ENT-2014-09-05 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-IUE-2014-09-05 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2014-09-05 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2014-09-05 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2014-09-05 (Public Finance)
- NEP-SBM-2014-09-05 (Small Business Management)
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