The hidden costs of tax evasion.

The hidden costs of tax evasion.: Collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services

In markets where transactions are governed by contractual incompleteness, revealed intentions to evade taxes may affect market performance. We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. We find that tax evasion attempts ...

Corporate Tax Evasion with Agency Costs

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 Hidden Economy and Tax - Evasion Prosecutions in New Zealand

We consider non-stationary time-series data for the size of the hidden economy and for tax-related prosecutions in New Zealand. The two series are found to be cointegrated, and there is strong evidence of Granger causality from prosecutions to hidden activity. There is no significant evidence of reverse causality. Author Contact: Professor David E. A. Giles, Department of Economics, University ...

Structural modeling of the relationship between tax evasion and the hidden economy with the Panel MIMIC approach

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the type and extent of tax evasion relationship with hidden economy. Based on the theoretical foundations and background of studies, influential and influential variables on tax evasion and hidden economy were identified and then based on Panel-MIMIC structural methodology for the period 2011-2018 in 30 selected provinces and using ML estimator, ...