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Firms may evade taxes on profits and can also avoid fulfilling legal restrictions on production activities by bribing … bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the … budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less corruption. Policy measures which alter the gains or losses from corruption …
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Firms may evade taxes on profits and can also avoid fulfilling legal restrictions on production activities by bribing … bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the … budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less corruption. Policy measures which alter the gains or losses from corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780466
This paper investigates the role of governance, in particular bribes to tax officials, in shaping business tax compliance behavior in transition economies. The empirical results show that business noncompliance rises with the frequency of tax related bribes. More specifically, the findings from...
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shifting of multinationals. Using a theoretically derived corruption weighted tax differential, we show that corruption … increases profit shifting of European firms. We use our estimates to calculate the implied tax revenue elasticities for European … corrupt. This means that corruption negatively affects the revenue gains that countries could have from increasing their tax …
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To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...
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corruption and tax compliance. We do this through a leniency program. In our experiment we nest collusive corruption within a tax …
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We use firm-level administrative data from Ecuador to study the implications of 'reverse withholding' for firms' tax … behavior. Withholding does not affect tax liability of firms, but it may result in a discontinuity in the audit probability … firms' profit taxes concentrate near the withholding rate. To explore the link between bunching and evasion, we use data …
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Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices …
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Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices …
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corruption in the administration, these outcomes become more likely. …
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