In this paper, the size of the informal economy of Pakistan is determined by including the legal and political-institutional variables as determinants. By using the MIMIC model average estimate for the informal economy of Pakistan is 37.75 percent from 1995 to 2017. The study tries to explore...

The author investigates here the impact of taxes on the size of the underground economy. Starting from the reference model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972), he derives three other sub-models from which it constructs a general model. The author used this model to evaluate the limits between which...

To evaluate how undeclared work is being tackled in Croatia this paper reports an e-survey and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in Croatia. It is revealed that, compared with the European Economic Area countries, Croatia has a weak institutional infrastructure for tackling undeclared...

Organized crime, in the context of globalization, has become a cross-border phenomenon and, as such, its control can not be achieved only at national level but integrated into global, regional and sub regional one. Moreover, the existing tools and future solutions should provide realtime...

In recent years, organized crime has expanded considerably, the presence, complexity and importance, and now threatens many aspects of normal life of citizens in private life, work and business. Organized crime promotes corruption, violence and other illegal activities threatening the security...

The history of mankind as a whole has proven that every time they appear and show major economic crisis, global exponential stage for development appear to various phenomena of crime, of poverty amid ancestral human population and the evil inclinations the detriment of his neighbor, for selfish...

Tax evasion, special component of the underground economy is an economic and social phenomenon whose size has grown in all countries. Tax evasion and has appeared with the state and tax laws. Its cover area is extended to all taxes. It actually aims to minimize taxation through the use of...

In this paper, the size of the informal economy of Pakistan is determined by including the legal and political-institutional variables as determinants. By using the MIMIC model average estimate for the informal economy of Pakistan is 37.75 percent from 1995 to 2017. The study tries to explore...

The multitude of duties which the fiscal regulations impose on the tax payers, as well as the burden of these duties have always stimulated tax payer’s ingeniousness to invent solutions to elude the fiscal duties. Tax evasion is the logic result of the faults and inadvertencies of an imperfect...

This paper discusses alternative approaches to the measurement of the informal economy in Romania. The author proposes two essential criteria regarding the economic classification, namely whether the respective activities are or are not reported through an official established document and...