Taking the High Road? Compliance with commuter tax allowances and the role of evasion spillovers

Jörg Paetzold () and Hannes Winner
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Jörg Paetzold: University of Salzburg

No 1419, Working Papers from Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation

Abstract: We provide first field evidence on evasion spillovers as an important determinant of the individual compliance decision. Exploiting discontinuities in a self-reported commuter tax allowance, we observe a substantial share of taxpayers misreporting their claims. Using exogenous variation in job changes we find that individual evasion decisions are influenced by the compliance behaviour of other co-workers, with job changers from low- to high-cheating companies starting to evade much more after they move. In contrast, movers from high- to low-cheating companies do not alter their reporting. The most likely explanation is information transmission, including increased knowledge about the possibilities for non-compliance.

Keywords: Tax Evasion; Self-Reporting; Spillover E ects; Information Frictions industrial clusters; infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 H24 H26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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