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Income tax flattening: does it help to reduce the shadow economy?
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations of previous literature by using a new functional form, better quality data, a larger sample of 170 countries, a longer time span of 25 years, a panel framework, and instrumental variables. Our analysis provides strong evidence of a positive relationship between income tax rates and the size of the shadow economy. The effects of structural progressivity and complexity of national tax schedules are also found to be positive and statistically significant. These positive effects are reinforced when tax changes are accompanied by improving government services and strengthening the legal system. The flat tax is estimated to reduce the shadow economy in the short run, but this effect diminishes and disappears in the long run.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4223
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- Thema
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Shadow economy
tax evasion
personal income tax
corporate income tax
flat tax
structural progressivity
tax complexity
electricity approach
institutions
Steuerreform
Flat Tax
Wirkungsanalyse
Schattenwirtschaft
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sabirianova Peter, Klara
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009062240
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Sabirianova Peter, Klara
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2009
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