Due to its overwhelming significance among taxes on earnings in the agricultural and forestry sector, the analyses are primarily concentrated on the international comparison of effective income tax burden in the selected EU Member States as well as Canada, the United States and Japan. In this...

This paper offers estimates of the underreporting of income by selfemployed workers using the Spanish household surveys over the period 2006–2009. We replicate the well-known approach by Pissarides and Weber (J Public Econ 39(1):17–32, 1989) but extending its interpretation for admitting...

In this paper the authors analyze the existence of profit shifting by companies located in Spain. Using a sample of 1,380 Spanish subsidiaries owned by foreign OECD and EU parent companies from the AMADEUS Database for the period 2005-2014 and a simple tax rate difference as a measure of the...

In this paper I estimate under-assessment of incomes in the Personal Income Tax during the years following its introduction in Spain. The methodology combines an analysis of discrepancy with National Accounts and an econometric exercise, which follows and slightly modifies the Feldman and...

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' responses to...

We investigate whether monitoring the information trails generated by firms' activities improves tax compliance. We exploit quasi-experimental variation generated by a Large Taxpayers' Unit (LTU) in Spain, which devotes additional resources to verifying the transactions reported by firms with...

This paper analyzes the effects on tax compliance of monitoring the information trails generated by firms' activities. We exploit quasi-experimental variation generated by a Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) in Spain, which monitors firms with more than 6 million euros in reported revenue. Firms...

We use static and dynamic panel data model specifications to address the relationship between business groups and tax avoidance, controlling for firm-specific and regional tax avoidance determinants.This paper aims to determine whether Spanish corporate groups and complex group networks have...

In this paper the authors analyze the existence of profit shifting between Spain and other OECD and EU countries. Using a sample of 1,169 Spanish subsidiaries owned by foreign OECD and EU parent companies and a sample of 317 EU subsidiaries owned by Spanish parent companies, taken from the...