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Understanding fiscal capacity in developing economies: Firms as third-party tax enforcers

Why can modern governments tax efficiently? (Working Paper)

Working paper 1 Mar 2012 State and Tax

Authors

Henrik Kleven

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Claus Thustrup Kreiner

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

Emmanuel Saez

Professor of Economics, University of California - Berkeley
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