Almunia, Miguel; Hjort, Jonas; Knebelmann, Justine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Are firms sophisticated maximizers, or do they consistently make errors? Using transaction-level data from Ugandan value-added tax (VAT) returns, we show that sellers and buyers report different amounts 79% of the time, despite invoices being easily cross-checked. We estimate that 25% of firms...