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Can tax simplification help lower tax corruption?
This paper seeks to find empirical evidence of a link between tax simplification and corruption in tax administration. It attempts to do this by first defining “tax simplicity” as a measurable variable, and exploring empirical relationships between simpler tax regimes and corruption in tax administrations. Corruption in tax administration is calculated by using data series from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey Database. The focus is on business taxes. 104 countries from different income groups and regions of the world are included in this study. The time period is 2002–2012. The empirical findings support the existence of a significant link between the measure of tax corruption and tax simplicity, so, a less complex tax system is shown to be associated with lower corruption in tax administration. It is predicted that the combined effect of a 10 % reduction in both the number of payments and the time to comply with tax requirements can lower tax corruption by 9.64 %. Some interesting regional differences are observed in the results. While the impact on tax simplification on tax corruption is expected to be the highest in the LAC and SSA regions, the weakest economic significance is observed in the SASIA and EAP regions. Similarly, the income level of countries plays an important role in determining the impact of tax simplification on tax corruption; specifically, the link is stronger for lower income level countries. The positive link between tax simplicity and lower tax corruption has useful policy implications.
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Strengthening domestic resource mobilization : moving from theory to practice in low- and middle-income countries
Public spending plays a key role in the economic growth and development of most developing economies. This book analyzes revenues, policy, and administration of Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) in developing countries. It provides a broad landscape of practical examples, drawing from lessons learned in World Bank operations across Global Practices over the past several decades. It should be thought of as a starting point for a more comprehensive research agenda rather than a complete inventory itself. This book reviews the trends in tax revenue collection in developing countries. It provides an overview of efforts to close the revenue gap, many of which have been supported by World Bank operations. The book reviews the special challenges facing low income countries, which have traditionally relied on indirect revenues in the context of limited formalization of their economies. An overview of tax policy and administration reform programs is presented, with an overview of outstanding issues that will shape the policy agenda in years ahead.
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Risk-based tax audits : approaches and country experiences
Revenue administration is a major interface between the state and its citizens. A good revenue administration is, therefore, an important attribute of good government. As a result, in recent years, policy makers have become increasingly aware of the importance of policies that will promote business development while ensuring voluntary tax compliance. In the modern context, it is neither desirable nor feasible to examine or inspect every single taxpayer. The revenue administration, therefore, has to rely on effective management of compliance. Promoting voluntary compliance, achieved through a self-assessment system in which taxpayers comply with their tax obligations without intervention from tax officials, requires developing modern approaches to audits based on risk management. The impact of audits critically depends on a properly designed audit selection strategy focused on high-risk taxpayers to provide the most cost-effective outcome. This, in itself, contributes to promoting voluntary compliance. Risk-based country audits: approaches and country experiences are an important study of this critical revenue function of compliance management.
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Risk-based tax audits
This book serves as a toolkit on risk-based audits and brings together country experiences for implementing risk-based audit systems. Risk management is an important element of effective and efficient compliance management in revenue administration. It is impossible for any revenue administration to control and check every single taxpayer, and an unnecessary waste of scarce enforcement resources on routinely examining low-risk, compliant taxpayers. The opportunity costs for such roving examinations are high. Just as a private business allocates its resources to areas they feel have the most po
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Strengthening domestic revenue mobilization
Public spending plays a key role in the economic growth and development of most developing economies. This book analyzes revenues, policy, and administration of Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) in developing countries. It provides a broad landscape of practical examples, drawing from lessons learned in World Bank operations across Global Practices over the past several decades. It should be thought of as a starting point for a more comprehensive research agenda rather than a complete inventory itself. This book reviews the trends in tax revenue collection in developing countries. It provides an overview of efforts to close the revenue gap, many of which have been supported by World Bank operations. The book reviews the special challenges facing low income countries, which have traditionally relied on indirect revenues in the context of limited formalization of their economies. An overview of tax policy and administration reform programs is presented, with an overview of outstanding issues that will shape the policy agenda in years ahead
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Taxation and the shadow economy : how the tax system can stimulate and enforce the formalization of business activities
Cash transactions for goods and services in which no receipts are issued greatly increase the risk of tax evasion. Despite the availability of banking services and alternative payment, key sectors of the economy remain largely cash-based in almost all developing countries. This paper shows the apparent strong negative correlation between the use of electronic or formal payments and the size of the shadow economy and reviews the approaches used by tax policy makers and administrators to achieve better control of cash transactions. It argues that the many new and sometimes innovative approaches developed to support the formalization of cash transactions will have little impact on the shadow economy if applied in isolation. A successful strategy to tax cash economy businesses and transactions requires a holistic approach to compliance management in which traditional monitoring and enforcement tools, such as enabling tax administrations to access taxpayer data and match information from various public and private sources, play a key role.
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Determinants of Property Tax Revenue : Lessons from Empirical Analysis
Many developing countries have struggled with realizing sufficient revenues from property tax. However, as developing countries experience economic growth, they are also seeing property values rising, providing a bigger tax base from which to realize revenues. Technology has made tax administration easier and more effective and developing country governments have been improving their quality of governance and considering introducing or enhancing property tax revenue collection to diversify their tax and fiscal revenues. This paper explores the determinants of property tax revenue using data from the United States, Canada, Australia, Chile, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for 2006 to 2016, using a fixed effects model. The results show that increases in gross domestic product and population lead to increases in property tax revenue and an increase in federal transfers decreases it. The outcomes of the empirical analysis highlight the statistically significant impacts on property tax collection of a country's state of development and its demographic, fiscal, and property tax–specific characteristics. A critical question for further research is whether and how the empirical methodologies and specifications as applied to the set of developed economies would be replicated in the context of developing countries.
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