We examine whether three tax system characteristics – required book-tax conformity, worldwide versus territorial approach, and perceived strength of enforcement – impact corporate tax avoidance across countries after controlling for firm-specific factors previously shown to be associated...

[EN] “Should I stay or should I go… ”? The implementation of the EU’s internal market, characterized in the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union ( TFUE) as ”an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured”,...

[EN] “Should I stay or should I go… ”? The implementation of the EU’s internal market, characterized in the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union ( TFUE) as ”an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured”,...

Presumptive income taxes in the form of a tax on turnover for SMEs are pervasive as a way to reduce the costs of compliance and administration. We analyze a model where entrepreneurs allocate labor to the formal and informal sectors. Formal sector income is subjected either to a corporate income...