Showing 1 - 10 of 1,899
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918223
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054598
deterring them, even if audits can be performed costlessly. When there is no cheating, redistribution takes place on first- and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021526
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approach allows us to examine (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113080
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072161
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127327
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with respect to tax rates depend on such evasion opportunities. We first discuss the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099103
The economic models of tax compliance predict that individuals should evade taxes when the expected benefit of cheating is greater than its expected cost. When this condition is fulfilled, the high compliance however observed remains a puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316778
We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information frictions when individuals newly enter the formal sector economy. Most importantly, we provide causal evidence on the exact mechanisms through which individuals learn about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918220