VAT Notches, Voluntary Registration, and Bunching : Theory and UK Evidence /

Using administrative tax records for UK businesses, we document both bunching in annual turnover below the VAT registration threshold and persistent voluntary registration by almost half of the firms below the threshold. We develop a conceptual framework that can simultaneously explain these two app...

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Autor principal: Liu, Li
Outros Autores: Almunia, Miguel, Lockwood, Ben, Tam, Eddy
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/205
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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