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The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals' tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...
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The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299807
We study tax-driven intergenerational asset shifting using a salient tax discontinuity and rich data on both donors and recipients. When the Swedish inheritance tax was in place, heirs could lower their inheritance tax bills by passing on part of the inheritance to their children. We present...
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We develop a tax competition model that allows for the setting of both an origin-based and a destination-based commodity tax rate in the presence of avoidance and evasion. In the presence of evasion, jurisdictions will give cross-border shoppers tax preferential treatment, thus not fully...
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on federal income taxation. Mr. Wallwork provides a novel look at the Tax Court's doctrine of preparer fraud, which … policy actually increases fraud in the name of preventing it …
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The European Union�s VAT system has become vulnerable to organised fraud schemes. In recent years, these schemes … trade in goods among EU countries. Within the EU-27, organised VAT fraud is estimated to amount to between �20 billion and … effectiveness of anti-VAT-fraud strategy cannot be separated from a broad view of the problem and of the functioning of the VAT …
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evasion. We analyze the impact of the widely introduced e-invoicing in Italy on cross-border value-added tax fraud. As a proxy … for this tax fraud, we make use of the discrepancy in trade data that is double-reported in both the importing and … remaining countries of the European Union. Our results suggest a significant decline in cross-border fraud in response to the …
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evasion. We analyze the impact of the widely introduced e-invoicing in Italy on cross-border value-added tax fraud. As a proxy … for this tax fraud, we make use of the discrepancy in trade data that is double-reported in both the importing and … remaining countries of the European Union. Our results suggest a significant decline in cross-border fraud in response to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262741
If tax obligations are met, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on output for a specific tax not only raises a monopolist's production, but also represents a Pareto improvement. However, if tax avoidance or evasion is feasible and the marginal costs of such actions decline with...
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This paper uses store-level data on consumer liquor revenues and volume sales in Oregon to estimate the effect of state tax differentials on consumer demand. Liquor privatization in Washington led to higher prices from new taxes. I calculate the impact of tax incidence on tax avoidance using...
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