The economic literature on audit design has almost entirely ignored tax agencies' practical reliance on whistle-blowers for the successful conduct of tax investigations. The authors compare the tax agency's performance under a one-round blind-audit policy and a two-round...

Very often tax collectors initiate an audit on the basis of observed spending capacity that does not seem to conform with declared income. This requires the skillful evader to carefully consider his or her expenditures on conspicuous consumption to avoid drawing the attention of the tax...

This note readdresses the issue of monopoly profit tax evasion and its output decisions recently reexamined in this journal by Wang (1990) under the assumption that the probability of detection and the penalty rate increase with the amount of understated profit. The note shows that contrary to...

This article inquires into a wage earner's decision to evade taxes by splitting his or Abstract her work efforts between several jobs while misinforming his or her employers regarding employment elsewhere. Under exact or approximate withholding by progres sive marginal rates, this behavior,...