Tax Rate Cuts and Tax Compliance-The Laffer Curve Revisited /

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...

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Autore principale: Papp, Tamas
Altri autori: Takats, Elod
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/007
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF