Journal of
Accounting and Taxation

  • Abbreviation: J. Account. Taxation
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6664
  • DOI: 10.5897/JAT
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 217

Full Length Research Paper

The informative value of taxes: The case of temporal differences in tax accounting

Evangelos Chytis
  • Evangelos Chytis
  • University of Ioannina, Greece, School of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Accounting and Finance, Preveza, Greece.
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  •  Received: 18 June 2019
  •  Accepted: 06 August 2019
  •  Published: 31 August 2019

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