Keeping It Off The Books: An Empirical Investigation Into the Characteristics of Firms That Engage In Tax Non-Compliance

Lindsay Tedds

Department of Economics Working Papers from McMaster University

Abstract: We investigate firm tax noncompliance using a survey of firms from around the world. Overall, we find that small firms are less and large firms are more compliant. Foreign owned firms, exporters and firms that have audited finance statements are also more compliant, as found by others, but, quite surprisingly, government ownership is insignificant. Not surprisingly, organized crime, high taxes, and government corruption all result in lower compliance. Finally, we find that firms around the world engage in tax noncompliance but, holding all else constant, compliance in highest in OECD countries and the lowest in Latin American, African & Middle Eastern countries.

Keywords: Underground Economy; Tax Noncompliance; Firm Characteristics; Interval Regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C24 D21 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2005-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-acc, nep-cwa, nep-dev and nep-reg
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