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Professor of business economics and public policy, university of michigan business. Our goal in this paper is to integrate the theoretical and empirical tax research from accounting, economics, and finance, to summarize what is known and unknown, and to offer suggestions for future research. We should not have worked on this paper, nber working papers 11566, national bureau of economic research, inc. An approach to taxation that goes beyond an emphasis on tax rates to consider such aspects as administration, compliance, and remittance. The economics of corporate tax selfishness joel slemrod. This question pertains to the paper optimal tax administration by slemrod and keen 2017. The economics of tax evasion 33 for example, tax policy choices concerning goods that are exempt from the valueadded tax, or which pay different rates.
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