Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...

Gesellschafter von Familienunternehmen sind in vielfältiger Hinsicht von einer Reihe von Transparenzauflagen in besonderer Weise betroffen. Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen hat sich mit den verschiedenen Aspekten der Unternehmenstransparenz beschäftigt. In vier...

In this paper we study the social norms to abstain from cheating on the state via benefit fraud and tax evasion. We interpret these norms (called benefit morale and tax morale) as moral goods, and derive testable hypotheses on whether their demand is determined by prices. Employing a large...