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...

We investigate (i) whether traders on an experimental asset market form different and separate mental accounts for sale revenues and for dividend earnings and whether (ii) an increase in tax penalty or (iii) an increase in audit frequency increases tax compliance. The results indicate that...