interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

country. This growth of the informal sector has shrunk formal sector tax collections thereby prompting authorities to set …. Consequently, Zimbabwe introduced the presumptive tax in 2005 which has been gradually extended to increasing classes of informal … engineers, architects, and legal practitioners. The absence of tax-free thresholds implies that informal sector taxpayers must …