Distributional implications of informal economy in the EU countries: Accounting for the spread of tax evasion benefits and cultural characteristics

SG Masca, DM Chis - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
This study provides evidence about the impact of informal economy on income inequality by
using annual cross-country panel data from 28 European Union countries observed during …

Tax evasion and financial accelerator: A corporate sector analysis for the US business cycle

B Chiarini, M Ferrara, E Marzano - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the consequences of willful tax noncompliance in the US corporate
sector on the business cycle when financial frictions operate. In this setting, we simulate a …

W (h) ither the Tax Gap

J Alm, JA Soled - Wash. l. Rev., 2017 - HeinOnline
W(H)ITHER THE TAX GAP? James Alm & Jay A. Soled Page 1 W(H)ITHER THE TAX GAP?
James Alm & Jay A. Soled For decades, policy makers and politicians have railed against the …

Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States

S Higgins, N Lustig, W Ruble… - Review of Income and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in B razil and the US,
including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public …

Taxing higher incomes: what makes the high-income earners consent to more progressive taxation in Latin America?

S Berens, A von Schiller - Political Behavior, 2017 - Springer
When do high-income earners get 'on board'with the fiscal contract and accept paying a
larger share of the tax burden? Progressive taxes perform particularly poorly in developing …

The VAT at 100: A Retrospective Survey and Agenda for Future Research

J Slemrod, T Velayudhan - Public Finance Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We take stock of what is known about the consequences of actual value-added tax (VAT)
systems, nearly 100 years since its conception. We benchmark it to the tax it most often …

Distributional implications of joint tax evasion

OE Nygård, J Slemrod, TO Thoresen - The Economic Journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Both buyers and sellers of goods and services may benefit from letting their economic
transactions go unrecorded for tax purposes. The supplier reduces his tax burden by …

Experimental evidence on the relationship between tax evasion opportunities and labor supply

P Doerrenberg, D Duncan - European Economic Review, 2014 - Elsevier
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed
heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor …

Tax evasion and religiosity in the Muslim world: the significance of Shariah regulation

M Nurunnabi - Quality & Quantity, 2018 - Springer
This paper uses a socio-economic theoretical framework and data from the shadow
economy (1999–2007) to examine tax evasion and religiosity in 38 Muslim-majority …

The Incidence of Vat Enforcement

Z Asatryan, D Gomtsyan - Available at SSRN 4302535, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Who bears the costs of tax enforcement? Using a reform enforcing value added tax (VAT) on
previously non-compliant large retailers in Armenia, we estimate that only one-third of the …