Does Compulsory Voting Increase Collected Tax Revenues?

Mihai Mutascu

Economic Research Guardian, 2020, vol. 10, issue 2, 144-152

Abstract: The paper investigates the relationship between tax and type of voting by using GMM-system estimators. The data-set covers the period 2000-2010 and includes 122 countries. The main finding shows that the assumed function is linear, the compulsory voting tending to improve the tax collection. The transmission channel seems to have a motivational reason and shows that the citizens realize better the tax duty under compulsory voting. Hence, tax payment duty has new valences given its congruence with voting duty.

Keywords: Tax revenues; Compulsory voting; Voluntary voting; Effects; Tax policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D70 H20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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