This paper estimates that the US could attain large welfare gains by implementing an optimal Ramsey tax policy that taxes consumption and income. It is also found that the welfare implications associated with taxing consumption are quantitatively more important than those associated with dynamically taxing income. Indeed, replacing income taxes with a constant consumption tax leads to a welfare...

We use the occasion of a change in tax policy that raised the tax rate for many of the listed companies in China to examine tax-induced earnings management (TEM) from the perspective of political connections. We find that when the tax rate increased, only those affected firms with politically connected management engaged in TEM. This suggests that, in addition to motivation for managing earning...

This study extends prior research on the willingness of firms to significantly decrease their corporate taxes. It specifically examines the associations between corporate tax avoidance and the reported significant uncertainty of a firm’s tax position, the tax expertise and tax affiliations of its directors, and the performance-based remuneration incentives of its key management personnel. Based...

One of the management measures to reduce tax liabilities is non-payment of taxes through tax fraud. Because personality factors may play a role in explaining tax ethics, examining personality traits and aspects of tax fraud can help to better understand the factors that influence tax decisions. The main purpose of this study is to provide a model for detecting tax fraud based on the personality...

We study an optimum-taxation model, where individuals differ not only in earning abilities, but also in inherited endowments. We show first that an expenditure tax (which is equivalent to a tax on endowments), combined with an optimum nonlinear income tax, is desirable according to a utilitarian social objective, if on average high-able individuals have larger endowments that low-able. Secondly...

Tax evasion is an element in the Colombian government that jeopardizes tax collection of National and Customs administrations, for correct execution Nation's public budget, social programs population spending public, however, situation arises because taxpayers somehow have notion Government does not adequately manage resources due to a administration immersed corruption scandals. The must compl...