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

Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? (Policy Brief)

Policy brief 1 Mar 2012

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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