Arbex, Marcelo; Mattos, Enlinson; Ogura, Laudo M. - Department of Economics, University of Windsor - 2014
Tax enforcement costs constrain the government's ability to observe economic activities, giving rise to hard-to-tax (HTT) markets. In this paper, we develop a Hotelling-type spatial model of sales taxation to analyze the welfare and distributional effects of the existence of HTT transactions. We...