We present four important dimensions to international tax policy from a tax-systems perspective, stressing that non-rate/base tax policies can have different cross-jurisdictional spillover effects than changes in tax rates. The dimensions are the allocation of global income among taxing...

An online survey experiment spanning 50 countries finds sizable improvements in tax morale when (a) the salience of anti-corruption efforts is increased and (b) citizens are allowed to voice their expenditure preferences to the government. These results hold very broadly across a uniquely large...

The structure of this general chapter follows the structure of the conference upon which this book is based. At that conference, questions related to eight broad areas of tax compliance (ranging from issues surrounding the tax gap, through information exchange and cooperative compliance, and on...

Historically, the tax authority in Australia, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), took a somewhat negative attitude towards tax gap measurement. This attitude, which has changed over the last few years, was largely predicated upon the perceived unreliability of tax gap estimation...