Tax administrations increasingly use audits via mail (correspondence audits) to audit taxpayers. Correspondence audits are cheaper than face-to-face audits but their effects on compliance are unclear. We investigate the effects of correspondence and face-to-face audits on post-audit tax...

A large body of research has estimated the effects on tax collection of informing taxpayers of their obligations. This paper examines the effects on voluntary tax payments of providing taxpayers with information on their obligations that is collected through massive information cross-checking...