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In a real-effort laboratory experiment to manipulate evasion opportunities, we study whether the moral evaluation of … tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the … opportunity to evade taxes judge tax evasion as less unethical as opposed to those who cannot evade. The detection probability …
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In a real-effort laboratory experiment to manipulate evasion opportunities, we study whether the moral evaluation of … tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the … opportunity to evade taxes judge tax evasion as less unethical as opposed to those who cannot evade. The detection probability …
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Tax enforcement can be prohibitively costly when market transactions and participants are difficult to observe. Evasion …
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of tax control as the mainstay of the reduction of tax evasion and the grey economy in our country, with a comparative … analysis with the developed countries and countries in transition. Financial effects of large-scale tax evasion may contribute … to generating the budget deficit. Economic effects of tax evasion can be particularly damaging to economy. It can upset …
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breaks-even. With costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. Under unit demand and fixed quality, price is independent of …
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What happens when the tax authority increases enforcement in one tax with compliance in other taxes? The very little evidence available is not conclusive. This paper presents a very simple analytical model that shows the conditions under which spillovers could be positive or negative in the...
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Most tax agencies use letters as the method of communicating with taxpayers. Still, other technologies exist that could be more effective. This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted by the National Tax Agency of Colombia (DIAN), using phone calls to reduce tax delinquencies....
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The article assesses the impact of a Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) as promoted by the European Commission and the related Working Groups on the effective tax burdens of companies in all 27 EU member states. The results shall help to evaluate the economic consequences of introducing a...
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We study optimal nonlinear taxation of labor income and linear taxation of capital income in a life-cycle framework with private information and idiosyncratic risk. We focus on simple history-independent tax instruments. We first analyze the welfare losses from this simplification as compared to...
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Value added taxes (VAT) are an important, and in many cases increasing, source of revenue in both developed and developing countries. Unsurprisingly there is an intense academic and policy debate about the appropriate VAT rate structure, for both equity and efficiency reasons. In this paper we...
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