Compliance Costs in Developed Countries varied between 3.91 percent of tax revenue in the UK in 1986-87 to between 7.9 to 10.8 percent in Australia in the 1990s. Compliance costs are incurred by taxpayers but also third parties who collect taxes (e.g. tax withholders) or who are required to...

We estimate the extent of income underreporting among working households, using data from an income survey linked with individual tax records for Estonia. Income underreporting is inferred from consumption propensities, following and extending the method by Pissarides andWeber (1989). Our...

This paper analyzes the effect of standard deductions on itemized deductions. Using German income tax data, it shows that the distribution of itemized deductions above the level of the standard deduction is positively skewed, with the mode lying somewhat above the standard deduction. This...