Gender bias in tax systems *

Janet Stotsky**

* This work was presented in the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Madrid, Spain, on April, 2005. The opinions given belong to the author.

** This analysis is mainly based on Janet Stotsky’s paper “Gender Bias in Tax Systems” Tax Notes International, June 9th, 1997, pages 1913-23.

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