We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. This waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities, investing costly effort in concealment, respectively detection, of tax evasion. We show that (socially inefficient) efforts depend positively on the prevailing tax rate, but not on the fine which is imposed in case of detected tax evasion. The frequency of ...

This paper analyzes whether the decreasing progressivity of the US Federal Tax system appear to affect taxpayer satisfaction. I use data from the publicly available General Social Survey and combine them with average tax rates from Piketty and Saez (2007). In this study, two distinct questions are addressed: (1) Is a taxpayer's belief that his or her own federal income tax is too high affected ...

The Impact of Tax Knowledge and Budget Spending Influence on Tax Compliance We investigate the impact of trust in authorities on tax compliance within a controlled laboratory setting. Embedded in two hypothetical tax systems with high and low power of authorities respectively, we gradually increase trust in authorities in form of tax knowledge about public expenditures and by allowing taxpayers...

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax effect on subjective well-being is significant and positive when controlling for income net of taxes. T...

A large body of empirical work in labor and public economics analyzes the behavioral response of earnings to taxes and transfers using the standard static model where agents choose to supply hours of work until the marginal disutility of work equals marginal utility of disposable (net-of-tax) income. This model, which from now on we call the standard model, predicts that, if individual preferen...

The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 reduced individual income tax rates for most taxpayers. The conventional wisdom, and evidence from earlier reductions in marginal tax rates, suggests that such reductions are associated with expansions of small businesses. In this paper I investigate how the business decisions of self-employed taxpayers responded to the 2001 rate cut...

The problem of tax non-compliance is a serious global phenomenon, especially in developing and least developed countries. In this regard, states design their administration laws compliance rules light the two most dominant theories: deterrence theory behavioural compliance. These theories are ideals or indexes good system. It thus important to examine base policy Ethiopia. This Article examines...