This paper investigates the role of managerial preferences in shaping corporate income tax evasion. Using noncompliance with the personal income tax as a measure of taste for evasion, the empirical results from a sample of corporate income tax returns show that managerial preferences play an...

This paper addresses the intertemporal relationship between state and local government revenues and expenditures in sixteen OECD countries. The results support both the spend-and-tax hypothesis and the tax-and-spend hypothesis. The results also highlight the importance of controlling for the...

This paper examines tax-return-generated data on the labor force behavior of people before and after they receive inheritances. The results are consistent with Andrew Carnegie's century-old assertion that large inheritances decrease a person's labor-force participation. For example, a single...