Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252360 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01211
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Many countries worldwide face significant miss reporting in tax declarations. Miss reporting leads to undesired low revenue and economic distortions. This paper discusses the extent to which the residual bookkeeping burden faced by small firms in simplified regimes influence tax declarations. A randomized control trial among 1,500 irregular firms in Piaui, Brazil showed that adding the tax amount due and records on transactions to a warning notification improved compliance in 21 percentage points and increased the reported revenue in 39 percent. Firms without an accountant were less likely to regularize their status without the added information. These findings suggest the use of third party information to support voluntary compliance may present an opportunity for digital services to improve tax revenue services.
Subjects: 
Tax payer support
tax compliance
accounting
JEL: 
H26
H30
H32
O38
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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