Author ORCID Identifier
Roy Bahl: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7956-5076
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1990
Abstract
A model of individual tax compliance behavior, including evasion and avoidance, is developed and estimated. The model recognizes the importance of marginal income tax rates, payroll tax contributions and benefits, and the probability of detection and the penalty on unpaid taxes. Share equations for avoidance, evasion and reported income are estimated using individual-level data. The estimation results indicate that the tax base rises with higher benefits for payroll tax contributions and falls with higher marginal tax rates; the base also falls with more severe penalties and more certain detection of evasion as individuals substitute towards avoidance income.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/2109600
Recommended Citation
Alm, James, Roy Bahl, and Matthew N. Murray, “Tax Structure and Tax Compliance” The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol 72, No 4 (Nov., 1990). https://doi.org/10.2307/2109600
Comments
Orignally published in:
Alm, James, Roy Bahl, and Matthew N. Murray, “Tax Structure and Tax Compliance” The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol 72, No 4 (Nov., 1990), ©1990 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The MIT Press, (pp. 603-613).
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