This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....

In modern tax systems, firms remit the majority of tax revenues raised by the government, which gives them opportunities to avoid and evade taxes by misreporting their activities. In this paper, we use a natural policy experiment to analyze how firms respond to different tax enforcement regimes....

We study the effects of tax enforcement policies on firm behavior in Spain. Firms with more than €6 million in reported revenue are monitored by the Large Taxpayers’ Unit (LTU), which results in more frequent tax audits and more information requirements for those firms. We exploit this...

This paper investigates the effects of monitoring the information trails generated by firms’ activities in order to improve tax compliance. We use quasi-experimental variation provided by a Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) in Spain to empirically test the theoretical predictions on firms’...

La disponibilidad de una base de datos en el ámbito de empresa que sea representativa del sector productivo de una economía a escala agregada es una condición necesaria para realizar tanto análisis de política económica como investigación económica fiables en múltiples áreas. En este...

Este documento investiga los efectos de supervisar los rastros de información generados por las actividades de las empresas con el objetivo de mejorar el cumplimiento de sus obligaciones tributarias. A partir de la variación cuasiexperimental proporcionada por la Unidad de Grandes...

En este artículo utilizamos variación geográfica plausiblemente exógena en la reducción de la demanda interna causada por la Gran Recesión en España para documentar la existencia de una robusta relación causal negativa a nivel de empresa entre cambios provocados por la demanda en las...

En este artículo se estudia cómo reacciona la renta gravable de los contribuyentes españoles ante cambios en los tipos marginales del IRPF, utilizando como principal fuente de identifi cación la variación proporcionada por tres grandes reformas del impuesto introducidas a lo largo del...

This paper provides a simple but general theoretical framework for analyzing simultaneous vertical and horizontal competition in excise taxes, which includes several previous contributions as special cases. It allows for both elastic individual demand for the taxed good, and cross-border...

This paper provides a legal and economic analysis of the European Commission's recent proposals for reforming the application of VAT to financial services, with particular focus on their 'third pillar', under which firms would be allowed to opt in to taxation on exempt insurance and financial...