"Dividends" and "Earnings or Profits" under the Income Tax Law: Corporate Non-Liquidating Distributions
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عنوان ژورنال: University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register
سال: 1941
ISSN: 0749-9833
DOI: 10.2307/3309018