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Department of the treasury, the canadian department of finance, the new zealand department of treasury, the south african ministry of finance, the world bank, the oecd, and several corporations. Slemrod also serves as director of the office of tax policy research, which is a research center at the university of michigan on matters of tax policy. A citizens guide to the debate over taxes, mit press books, the mit press, edition 1, volume. As albert einstein may or may not have said, the hardest thing in the. Dec 27, 2016 read book taxing ourselves, 4th edition. Tax policy experts joel slemrod and jon bakija lay out in accessible language what is known and not known about how taxes affect the economy and offer guidelines for evaluating tax systemsboth the.

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