To determine the full effects of taxation on income distribution, policymakers need to consider the impacts of tax evasion. In the standard analysis of tax evasion, all the benefits are assumed to accrue to tax evaders. But tax evasion has other impacts that determine its true effects. As...

There are competing 'views' on the economic effects of debt finance. One view argues that tax and debt finance have identical effects on various economic measures, a view sometimes termed 'Ricardian Equivalence'. However, this 'Ricardian view' remains controversial, with other views (the...

The Government of Colombia imposes a variety of taxes that must be paid by individual wage earners, called in their entirety "social protection contributions". Since 2007 individual payments have been collected using an on-line mechanism. In order to improve compliance, the Government used a...