Ghosts in the Income Tax Machinery
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Keywords
Tax Compliance; Tax Evasion; Nonfilers; Ghosts; Income Tax; Qualitative Response Models; Discrete Choice Analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
- H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2020-05-18 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2020-05-18 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2020-05-18 (Public Finance)
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