Arbeitspapier

Corporate and personal income tax declarations

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax evasion can be observed. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that a manager's decision on the firm's behaviour will be independent of his personal preferences if the gain from reducing corporate tax payments is certain, as in the case of tax avoidance. If, however, the firm evades taxes so that the manager's income depends on whether the firm's activities are detected or not, corporate and personal income tax evasion choices cannot be separated.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2239

Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Subject
firms
individuals
tax evasion
uncertainty
Unternehmensbesteuerung
Einkommensteuer
Finanzverwaltung
Steuerflucht
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Goerke, Laszlo
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2006

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Goerke, Laszlo
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2006

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