Background: China's former goods and service tax (GST) system subjects sale of goods to VAT and provision of services to business tax. The VAT enlargement reform launched in 2012 aimed to replace the business tax with VAT step by step. This paper is intended to explore the redistribution effects...

We focus on the efficiency of the VAT system in the old and new EU Member States. We calculated C-efficiency, Policy gap and Compliance gap for all member States in the period 2005 to 2018 for the groups of new and old member states. C-efficiency and Compliance gap are higher in new Member...

The Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud is one of the most endemic economic crimes within the European Union. Its most disruptive form, the Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) scam represents a real threat for the further economic and fiscal integration of the Union. The aim of this paper is to...