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Fines, nonpayment, and revenues: evidence from speeding tickets

open access: yesJournal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2023
We estimate the effect of the level of fines on payment compliance and revenues collected from speeding tickets. Exploiting discontinuous increases in fines at speed cutoffs and reform-induced variation in these discontinuities, we implement two ...
Traxler Christian, Dušek Libor
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Ghosting the Tax Authority: Fake Firms and Tax Fraud

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2022
An important but poorly understood form of firm tax evasion arises from “ghost firms”—fake firms that issue fraudulent receipts so that their clients can claim false deductions.
Paul Carrillo   +3 more
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Casting a Wider Tax Net: Experimental Evidence from Costa Rica

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019
The majority of firms in developing countries are informal, yet even among registered firms, tax filing rates are low. We argue that non-filing of taxes among registered firms constitutes an important intermediate form of informality, which can be ...
A. Brockmeyer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, 2022
Using individual level records of all wealth-at-death in England, 1892-1992, together with new estimates of the wealth-specific rate-of-return on wealth, I estimate a plausible minimum level of the amount of inherited wealth that is hidden.
N. Cummins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of US Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018
In 2008, the IRS initiated efforts to curb the use of offshore accounts to evade taxes. This paper uses administrative microdata to examine the impact of enforcement efforts on taxpayers’ reporting of offshore accounts and income.
Niels Johannesen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating the Commensurate with Income Standard

open access: yesJournal of the American Taxation Association
This study analyzes a model in which intellectual property (IP) that generates uncertain future cash flows is sold by a U.S. parent to a foreign subsidiary. The parent has private, imperfect information regarding the value of the IP. The study compares
R. Sansing
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Effect of Hedge Fund Activism on Corporate Tax Avoidance

open access: yes, 2012
C. S. A. Cheng   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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