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evasion. We analyze the impact of the widely introduced e-invoicing in Italy on cross-border value-added tax fraud. As a proxy … for this tax fraud, we make use of the discrepancy in trade data that is double-reported in both the importing and … remaining countries of the European Union. Our results suggest a significant decline in cross-border fraud in response to the …
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crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …
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affected by tax evasion. Interestingly, the degree of substitution for fraud and usury is related to the size of tax burden …
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This study discusses European Commission's recent proposal to combat VAT fraud by taxing intra-Community supplies at a … Commission's proposal, are highlighted. -- value added tax ; intra-EU trade ; bilateral micro clearing ; VAT fraud ; European …
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The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of …. This study primarily deals with the quantification of the VAT evasion and fraud in the EU. On the basis of the national … determines the extent of VAT evasion and fraud of a country, when the time-lag problem between the creation of tax liability and …
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Who benefits from the evasion of value added taxes (VAT)? Using a reform that enforced VAT on previously non-compliant large retailers in Armenia, we estimate a one-third passthrough of the tax burden on prices. This suggests that pre-enforcement evasion rents were broadly shared with consumers...
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due to measurement error. Rather, a large fraction of the EU's self-surplus puzzle seems related to fraud in value added …
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welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while … macroeconomic uncertainty. -- tax evasion ; social fraud ; social comparisons ; cross-country comparisons ; experiments …
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During the period 1996-2000, the coverage of VAT in Pakistan rose by twenty times in terms of the number of firms in the tax net and by ten times in terms of the volume of transactions subject to it. This paper leverages this staggered introduction of VAT in the country to estimate its...
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I leverage a Pakistani tax reform that cuts the tax rate on the supply chains of five major industries of the country from 15% to 0% to cast light on the extent of, and mechanisms driving, VAT noncompliance in a representative emerging economy. I find that firms overclaim refunds by 22% and...
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