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The hidden costs of tax evasion : collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2015
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
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Welfare improving tax evasion
Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - 2020
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed...
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Tax evasion on a social network
Degl'Innocenti, Duccio Gamannossi; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2018
We relate tax evasion behavior to a substantial literature on self and social comparison in judgements. Taxpayers engage in tax evasion as a means to boost their expected consumption relative to others in their "local" social network, and relative to past consumption. The unique Nash equilibrium...
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Tax incidence in the presence of tax evasion
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil - 2014
This paper studies the effect of tax evasion on the economic incidence of sales taxes. We design a laboratory experiment in which buyers and sellers trade a fictitious good in double auction markets. A per-unit tax is imposed on sellers, and sellers in the treatment group are provided the...
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Prospect theory and tax evasion : a reconsideration of the Yitzhaki puzzle
Piolatto, Amedeo; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2013
Yitzhaki puzzle). The existing literature disagrees on whether prospect theory overturns the puzzle. We disentangle four … distinct elements of prospect theory and find loss aversion and probability weighting to be redundant in respect of the puzzle …. Prospect theory fails to reverse the puzzle for various classes of endogenous specification of the reference level. These …
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Why pay taxes when no one else does?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2009
present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and …
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Tax rates and tax evasion : an empirical analysis of the structural aspects and long-run characteristics in Italy
Chiarini, Bruno (contributor);  … - 2008
By using official time series of the Italian evaded VAT base (Ministry of Finance) for the period 1980-2004 we investigate empirically the long-run characteristics of tax evasion and the relationship with the tax burden. We focus on three important issues not analyzed so far. First, using...
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Tax evasion, welfare fraud, and "the broken windows" effect : an experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2011
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about others' behavior. Subjects have to decide between a 'registered' income, the realization of which...
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Work and tax evasion incentive effects of social insurance programs : evidence from an employment-based benefit extension
Bergolo, Marcelo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2014
This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social insurance reform in Uruguay that extended healthcare coverage to the dependent children of registered...
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Circumstantial risk : impact of future tax evasion and labor supply opportunities on risk exposure
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Zeppenfeld, … - 2014
This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to answer this question face identification issues due to self-selection into jobs that facilitate tax...
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