This paper uses international trade data to investigate the extent to which firms evade taxes on corporate profits. Discrepancies between reports by importers and exporters of the same trade flow are used to indirectly estimate the extent of evasion. When a tax rate changes in one country, firms...

The scope of tax evasion in developing countries represents cause for extreme fiscal concern. To combat this, a host of conventional and unconventional strategies are being deployed by fiscal authorities around the world. This paper examines the practitioner and academic context in which tax...

The extent of tax compliance has important implications for revenue yield, efficiency and the fairness of any tax system. Tax evasion undermines revenue collection, distorts competition, and undermines a country's development prospects. In this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity...

The extent of tax compliance has important implications for revenue yield, efficiency and the fairness of any tax system. Tax evasion undermines revenue collection, distorts competition, and undermines a country's development prospects. In this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity...

Firms may evade taxes on profits and can also avoid fulfilling legal restrictions on production activities by bribing bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less...

In undertaking the preparation of this paper, many authorities were consulted in journals, books and conference papers to get an insight into the meaning of illicit financial flows such as: abusive transfer pricing, capital flight, proceeds of tax evasion and avoidance, money laundering among...

This paper examines the corporate tax evasion puzzle from both a financial and governance perspective: one, the impact of tax evasion on a multinational's financial performance and secondly, whether corporate governance levels affect the probability of the multinational committing tax evasion....

We argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important, although underrated, source of innovation, and provide the first systematic definition of the concept. We for-mulate four propositions of evasive entrepreneurship and illustrate them with a number of real life examples, ranging from a...

This article discusses the impact of incomplete tax transparency on tax evasion. While FATCA and CRS address some forms of tax evasion, tax evaders may still use other tax evasion opportunities. Anti-tax evasion measures might not be effective or cost-efficient if tax evaders can continue...

In modern societies today complete legal descriptions of criminal offenses, related to the illegal audit of public revenues usually appear as tax evasion, customs fraud and smuggling. It will be the crime of smuggling phenomenon, as one of the forms of illegal evasion of public revenue,...