The effect of late payment penalties on the payment timing of owed taxes

Peer Skov

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 229, issue C

Abstract: This paper studies the effectiveness of a policy designed to influence the timing decision for payments of owed taxes. Owed taxes arise when the sum of the foregoing tax year’s preliminary tax payments falls short of the total tax liability. In 2009 the Danish tax authority (SKAT) introduced an annualised penalty rate of 4.6%. Using administrative tax data, I show that the penalty rate introduction led to a 50-day advancement of payments.

Keywords: Tax compliance; Tax enforcement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111200

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