From The Wall Street Journal:
David Neumark, professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine, says it "can be very difficult to measure" when a business starts using census data and other government sources. A shortcoming is that, in some cases, people may not report income taxes because their ventures aren't yet making any money.

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