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data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted … Lacroix (2009) using very different estimation methods and data. -- underground economy ; demand system ; household behavior … ; generalized method of moments ; tax evasion ; income from self-employment …
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data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278413
This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title "Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?", in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises against...
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functional form assumptions in previous PW applications. The estimated sizes of income underreporting in absolute monetary … amounts are almost constant over reported income levels, whereas previous studies have assumed that the underreporting is … proportional to income. …
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Sales from businesses to consumers provide fertile ground for collaborative tax evasion. However, little is known about the phenomenon. We conduct a natural field experiment with 2,900 businesses in which we take the role of consumers and vary if we request an invoice for the delivery of a...
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Collaborative evasion of taxes and social security fees is prevalent in household services, when a household hires a … and the household context in particular is lacking. This paper examines two coordination mechanisms of collaborative tax …
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We conduct a field experiment with sellers of home-improvement services on two German online markets. We take the role of consumers and vary whether we request an invoice for the delivery of the service. In a market which allows anyone to sell anonymously, a willingness to evade is prevalent. In...
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Sales from businesses to consumers provide fertile ground for collaborative tax evasion. However, little is known about the phenomenon. We conduct a natural field experiment with 2,900 businesses in which we take the role of consumers and vary if we request an invoice for the delivery of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919963
Third-party reporting and employers' tax withholding are powerful compliance mechanisms, as long as the employer and employee do not collude to evade. Using data from randomly assigned on-site audits among 2,462 Norwegian firms, we provide evidence of collusive tax evasion. We find that firms...
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In order to reduce the shadow economy, in 2013 and 2014 the Hungarian government introduced mandatory online cash registers (OCR) in some sectors. As a result, almost 200,000 OCRs have been installed by 100,000 enterprises. In this paper we use micro data to estimate the effect of OCR...
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