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How to Eliminate Pyramidal Business Groups The Double Taxation of Inter-corporate Dividends and other Incisive Uses of Tax Policy

In: Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 19

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Randall Morck

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This chapter was published in: Randall Morck Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 19, , pages 135-179, 2005.

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