AIMS Tobacco tax increases are the most effective means of reducing tobacco use and inequalities in smoking, but effectiveness depends on transnational tobacco company (TTC) pricing strategies, specifically whether TTCs overshift tax increases (increase prices on top of the tax increase) or undershift the taxes (absorb the tax increases so they are not passed onto consumers), about which little...

The tax gap is the difference between the tax collected and the tax that would be collected if all individuals and companies complied with both the letter and the spirit of the law. The letter of the law is the literal interpretation of tax legislation. The spirit of the law is the intention of Parliament in legislating on tax. In contrast to the letter of the law, which implies a literal legal...

This paper, I have focused on the tax side of the fiscal policy to  investigate the past and future behavior of fiscal sustainability in Iran. To do so, I have employed two different forward-looking and backward-looking approaches. First, the backward-looking approach is the fiscal policy rule proposed by Daving & Leeper (2011). Precisely, this rule determines that whether the fiscal policy is ...

In this research, considering the importance of the topic and the gap in previous researches, a model for predicting tax evasion of guilds based on data mining technique is presented. The analyzed data includes the review of 5600 tax files of all trades with tax codes in Qazvin province during the years 2013-2018. The tax file related to guilds is in five tax groups, including the guild group o...

Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the past two decades, the government has consistently spent more revenue than it is able to generate and the gap is often financed with foreign aid which has perpetuated the country’s aid dependency. Two options can be explored to reduce the gap between government revenue and expen...