Arbeitspapier

The Incidence of VAT Evasion

Who benefits from the evasion of value added taxes (VAT)? Using a reform that enforced VAT on previously non-compliant large retailers in Armenia, we estimate a one-third passthrough of the tax burden on prices. This suggests that pre-enforcement evasion rents were broadly shared with consumers through lower prices. Our theoretical and empirical results explain this low passthrough rate by the supply-chain effects and second-order compliance responses of firms to VAT enforcement. Our distributional analysis shows that households at the bottom of the income distribution benefit more from the rents of evasion.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8666

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Theory
Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Thema
value added tax
incidence
passthrough
evasion
enforcement
distributional effects

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Asatryan, Zareh
Gomtsyan, David
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Asatryan, Zareh
  • Gomtsyan, David
  • Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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