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Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance : Global Evidence and Aggregate Implications / Bachas, Pierre.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Bachas, Pierre.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compliance.
- Law and Development.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Private Sector Development.
- Tax Administration.
- Tax Enforcement.
- Tax Evasion.
- Tax Law.
- Total Factor Productivity.
- Local Subjects:
- Compliance.
- Law and Development.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Private Sector Development.
- Tax Administration.
- Tax Enforcement.
- Tax Evasion.
- Tax Law.
- Total Factor Productivity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 pages)
- Other Title:
- Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper studies the prevalence and consequences of size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance. The identification strategy uses the ranking of industries' average firm size in the United States as an instrument for the size ranking of the same industries in developing countries. Data on 125,000 firms in 140 countries show that tax enforcement and compliance increase with size. Size-dependence is more prevalent in low-income countries, and concentrated at the top of the size distribution. When quantified in a general equilibrium model, removing size dependent enforcement leads to gains in Total Factor Productivity of up to 0.8 percent.
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