Journal of
Accounting and Taxation

  • Abbreviation: J. Account. Taxation
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6664
  • DOI: 10.5897/JAT
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 223

Full Length Research Paper

Employees’ compensation: Do taxes play any role? Evidence from the compensation-taxation literature

Akinloye Akindayomi*
  • Akinloye Akindayomi*
  • Accounting and Business Law, College of Business Administration, University of Texas - Pan American, 1201 W. University Drive Edinburg, TX 78539-9999, U.S.A.
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Adesola Adeduro Ogunmakin
  • Adesola Adeduro Ogunmakin
  • Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management Sciences, Ekiti State University, Nigeria.
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  •  Received: 13 January 2015
  •  Accepted: 16 March 2015
  •  Published: 31 May 2015

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