Our study explores the decision to participate in the shadow economy and evade taxes. It does so in light of expected unity maximization and behavioral economics. We report a laboratory experiment where a hypothetical credit market involved participants on both the supply and demand sides of the...

Increasing the tax compliance of self-employed business owners (particularly of trade-specific service providers) remains an ongoing challenge for tax authorities. From a compliance point of view, cash transactions are particularly problematic when services are paid for on the spot, as such...

We analyze how the redistribution of tax revenues influences tax compliance behavior by applying different reward mechanisms. In our experiment, subjects have to make two decisions. In the first stage, subjects decide on the contribution to a public good. In the second stage, subjects declare...