Most tax evasion models are set in a timeless environment and assume that only income flow can be evaded. This framework is not suitable for financial market where an evasion decision is taken in an intertemporal framework and an asset itself can be evaded. We assume that a representative agent...

We model tax evasion in the context of an endogenous growth model with two actors: a private agent and the government. The private agent invests his/her endowment of physical capital in the production of a private good. The income derived is used for consumption activities and to finance a...

In a recent article Davidson, Lawrence and Wilson propose a model showing that, in the presence of distortionary taxation and goods of different quality, tax evasion can be an optimal device. Here, we show that this result, although quite interesting, cannot be generalised to a framework where...

Although tax evasion and auditing are dynamic processes, they have been approached in a dynamic framework only recently. We argue that the decision to avoid taxes is dynamically embedded with consumption decisions, which in turn are driven by consumption habits. The model is cast in a dynamic...

We solve the problem of a representative agent who maximises the expected present utility of his intertemporal consumption under the assumption that an optimal fraction of his wealth is hidden to the tax authorities (we show conditions under which evasion is expedient). Evasion affects the...