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Can public shaming increase tax compliance through social pressure? Many tax authorities make ample use of public … shaming. However, empirical evidence from outside the laboratory on how a new shaming law affects overall compliance is … of a novel naming-and-shaming policy in Slovenia in 2012. The policy aims to reduce outstanding tax debt among the self …
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demonstrate that this pattern reflects a causal relationship. -- Norm Enforcement ; Sanctioning ; Social Norms ; Survey Evidence …
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We discuss survey evidence on individuals' willingness to sanction norm violations - such as evading taxes, drunk driving, fare dodging, or skiving o work - by expressing disapproval or social exclusion. Our data suggest that people condition their sanctioning behavior on their belief about the...
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We discuss survey evidence on individuals' willingness to sanction norm violations - such as evading taxes, drunk driving, fare dodging, or skiving off work - by expressing disapproval or social exclusion. Our data suggest that people condition their sanctioning behavior on their belief about...
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This is the General Report for the United States on the theme of “Surcharges and Penalties in Tax Law” for the 2015 meeting of the European Association of Tax Law Professors in Milan, Italy. The Report addresses questions relating to the treatment of civil penalties, criminal penalties and...
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This paper explores the effects of alternative tax rules regarding monetary sanctions and litigation costs on the levels of criminal activity and litigation expenditure. The key insight is that taxation may affect crime not only by changing the relative expected returns from legal and criminal...
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Should accountants be punished for aiding and abetting tax evasion? The impulsive reply, as well as the politically correct answer, is “yes.” However, closer reflection reveals that the answer is not so cut and dried. This paper reviews the major ethical arguments that take the position that...
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government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement … potential mechanisms through which these letters may affect fine compliance and present results from a natural field experiment … enforcement letter is stronger than that of the social norms letter. Our analysis of heterogenous treatment effects indicates that …
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