Most traditional tax policies have been based on classical economic models of tax payers as decision makers.As in many fields where humans make decision, however, more integrated behavioural economic models, that is, models that take into account both psychological and purely economic factors...

The use of receipt-based tax lotteries to increase (VAT) tax compliance has been of growing interest amongst EU Member States. Some countries have introduced such lottery schemes, namely Malta in 1997, Slovakia in 2013 and Portugal in 2014. Others have been intrigued about the possibility of...

This study highlights the importance of taxation for a very broad range of operations of companies in the Internal market. The evidence obtained from the responses provided by the 700 companies involved in the European Tax Survey strongly indicates that compliance costs of EU companies increase...