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Tax compliance costs: A review of cost burdens and cost structures

Our paper provides a comprehensive report of empirical research on tax compliance costs. Compared to previous reviews, our focus is on average costs for sub-groups (individual taxpayers, small businesses, large businesses) and the composition of the cost burden with regards to different cost components (in-house time effort, external adviser costs, other monetary expenses), different taxes (e.g. income tax, value added tax) and different activities like tax accounting and tax planning. In addition, we give a short review of the most important compliance cost drivers and discuss the underlying causes of tax complexity and compliance costs.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: arqus Discussion Paper ; No. 178

Classification
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Subject
tax compliance costs
cost structures
cost burdens
cost drivers

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Eichfelder, Sebastian
Vaillancourt, François
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus)
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2014

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Eichfelder, Sebastian
  • Vaillancourt, François
  • Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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