Tax Rate Cuts and Tax Compliance—The Laffer Curve Revisited
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Summary:
The paper shows how tax rate cuts can increase revenues by improving tax compliance. The intuition is that tax evasion has externalities: tax evaders protect each other, because they tie down limited enforcement capacity. Thus, relatively small tax rate cuts, which decrease incentives to evade taxes, can lead to increased revenues through spillovers - creating Laffer effects. Interestingly, tax rate cuts here imply increasing effective taxes. The model is consistent with what happened in Russia, and may provide basis for further thinking about tax rate cuts in other countries.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2008/007
Subject:
Auditing Labor supply Revenue administration Tax auditing and verification Tax return filing compliance
English
Publication Date:
January 1, 2008
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451868692/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2008007
Pages:
20
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