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Production versus Revenue Efficiency with Limited Tax Capacity: Theory and Evidence from Pakistan

Michael Best A. Brockmeyer H. Kleven Johannes Spinnewijn Mazhar Waseem

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To fight evasion, many developing countries use production-inefficient tax policies. This includes minimum tax schemes whereby firms are taxed on either profits or turnover, depending on which tax liability is larger. Such schemes create nonstandard kink points, which allow for eliciting evasion responses to switches between profit and turnover taxes using a bunching approach. Using administrative data on corporations in Pakistan, we estimate that turnover taxes reduce evasion by up to 60–70 percent of corporate income. Incorporating this in a calibrated optimal tax model, we find that switching from profit to turnover taxation increases revenue by 74 percent without reducing aggregate profits.

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Economics

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Michael Best

A. Brockmeyer

H. Kleven

Johannes Spinnewijn

Mazhar Waseem

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Best, M., Brockmeyer, A., Kleven, H., Spinnewijn, J., Waseem, M. (2015). Production versus Revenue Efficiency with Limited Tax Capacity: Theory and Evidence from Pakistan. https://doi.org/10.1086/683849

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Tahun Terbit: 2015
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 257×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.1086/683849
Akses: Open Access ✓