Arbeitspapier

Audit publicity and tax compliance: A quasinatural experiment

We use confidential data on Value Added Tax payments at the sector level, in two large Italian cities, to estimate the effect of audits publicity on tax compliance of local sellers. By employing a Difference-in-Differences identification strategy, we find that such publicity has a positive effect on fiscal declarations made shortly after. The results suggest that increasing awareness on future audits via the media can be an important instrument in the hands of tax authorities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2016/40

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Tax Law
Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior: General
Thema
Tax evasion
Quasi-natural experiment
Audit publicity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Battiston, Pietro
Duncan, Denvil
Gamba, Simona
Santoro, Alessandro
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
(wo)
Pisa
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Battiston, Pietro
  • Duncan, Denvil
  • Gamba, Simona
  • Santoro, Alessandro
  • Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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