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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13483

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Thema
optimal taxation
tax evasion
audits
welfare-improving

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Canta, Chiara
Cremer, Helmuth
Gahvari, Firouz
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2020

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  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Canta, Chiara
  • Cremer, Helmuth
  • Gahvari, Firouz
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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