Why Are Taxes so Complex and Who Benefits?
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Michelle J. White is Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. This paper is a revised version of a paper prepared for delivery to the 1988 Internal Revenue Research Conference. Research support was provided by the Law and Social Science and Economics Programs of NSF under grant number SES-8812763. The author expresses gratitude to Richard Lempert, Joel Slemrod, Suzanne Scotchmer, and Ann Witte for helpful comments.
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