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Can public shaming increase tax compliance through social pressure? Many tax authorities make ample use of public shaming. However, empirical evidence from outside the laboratory on how a new shaming law affects overall compliance is lacking. We provide the first evidence from the field,...
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This paper studies the effects of the 2017 multilateral automatic exchange of information (AEoI) on tax compliance in Switzerland. Using detailed administrative tax data and difference-in-differences designs, I find significant positive compliance effects. The AEoI prompted 107k taxpayers (2% of...
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Many countries apply lower fines to tax evading individuals when they voluntarily disclose the tax evasion they …
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Many countries apply lower fines to tax evading individuals when they voluntarily disclose the tax evasion they …
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about non-enforcement. Additional evidence from a post-experimental survey suggests that for taxpayers in the lottery group … suggest that the intervention prompted parts of the population to register and that monetary incentives may be …
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of partial enforcement? This Article shows that imperfect enforcement can alter the de facto content of the written law … in predictable and beneficial ways. Specifically, in the tax compliance context, even if perfect enforcement were … costless, it would not always be socially optimal. When improving the substantive law is infeasible, the enforcement agency can …
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This paper studies the effect of endogenous audit probabilities on reporting behavior in a face-to-face compliance situation such as at customs. In an experimental setting in which underreporting has a higher expected payoff than truthful reporting we find an increase in compliance of about 80%...
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this very broad field of research, the present survey focuses on enforcement policy …
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Many countries apply lower fines to tax evading individuals when they voluntarily disclose the tax evasion they …
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Emotions have a strong impact on our everyday life, including our mental health, sleep pattern, overall well-being, and judgment and decision making. Our paper is the first study to show that incidental emotions, i.e., emotions not related to the actual choice problem, influence the compliance...
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