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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1. Verfasser: Papp, Tamas
Weitere Verfasser: Takats, Elod
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/007
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF