Mental accounting of income tax and value added tax among self-employed business owners

value added tax and tax evasion

The phenomenon of tax evasion has been always one of the most major issues among economists due to it's devastating effects on the economy and the process of economic development. Many scholars have always sought to provide solutions to reduce and limit tax evasion. The introduction of the VAT system can be seen as a milestone in the area of economic transparency and tax evasion, which refers t...

The Added Value of Value Added Tax

Raising domestic tax revenues is a priority for most sub-Saharan African countries. But the tax bases in most African countries are undermined by widespread tax avoidance and evasion. A new study from CMI supports the claim that improved knowledge about the tax system makes a difference in people’s willingness to pay tax. The study shows that exposure to Value-AddedTax (VAT) makes people take a...

Income Tax Accounting under the Tax Consolidation System

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Should the Federal Income Tax Be Replaced with a National Sales or Value-added Tax?

[Editor's Note: It appears that the question of changing the federal tax base will be part of the public debate for the foreseeable future. In a Brief that we published in April, Alan Auerbach of UC Berkeley summarized the effects and uncertainties of replacing the federal income tax with a federal flat tax. In the following discussion, Steven Sheffrin of UC Davis reviews several important issu...

June 1989 TAX POLICY . Tax - Credit and Subtraction Methods of Calculating a Value - Added Tax