Arbeitspapier
Welfare Improving Tax Evasion
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed costlessly. When there is no cheating, redistribution takes place on first- and second-best frontiers and can never make low-ability types more well-off than high-ability types. Letting low-ability types cheat allows first-best redistribution up to a limit at which low-ability types are better off than high-ability types.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13483
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- Thema
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optimal taxation
tax evasion
audits
welfare-improving
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Canta, Chiara
Cremer, Helmuth
Gahvari, Firouz
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Canta, Chiara
- Cremer, Helmuth
- Gahvari, Firouz
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020