Event Title
Tax Compliance Experiment: Update and Lessons Learned
Location
Hart 113
Start Time
11-5-2017 11:20 AM
End Time
11-5-2017 11:50 AM
Description
All tax systems result in tax evasion by some members of the economy. In order to increase compliance and thereby increase revenues to supply benefits the use of positive inducements with tax laws have been tried. The positive incentives must be coordinated with the tax filing/paying process to induce the desired behavior: filing and paying the taxes owed. The efficacy of these types of policies can be tested in the lab more efficiently and for lower costs than implementing said policies and testing them after the fact. This research tests whether voting for various public goods are a positive inducement to filing taxes and paying the amount owed.
Tax Compliance Experiment: Update and Lessons Learned
Hart 113
All tax systems result in tax evasion by some members of the economy. In order to increase compliance and thereby increase revenues to supply benefits the use of positive inducements with tax laws have been tried. The positive incentives must be coordinated with the tax filing/paying process to induce the desired behavior: filing and paying the taxes owed. The efficacy of these types of policies can be tested in the lab more efficiently and for lower costs than implementing said policies and testing them after the fact. This research tests whether voting for various public goods are a positive inducement to filing taxes and paying the amount owed.
Comments
Moderator: Mark Kemper