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The Taxman Cometh

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Abstract

And this is a good thing.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

From a letter to Jean-Baptists Le Roy, in The Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1817, Ch. 4

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  1. SUNY College at Plattsburgh, USA

    Colin Read (Professor of Economics and Finance and the Dean of the School of Business and Economics)

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Read, C. (2009). The Taxman Cometh. In: Global Financial Meltdown. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595187_28

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