• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Toward an understanding of collaborative tax evasion: A natural field experiment with businesses
  • Contributor: Doerr, Annabelle [Author]; Necker, Sarah [Author]
  • Published: Freiburg i. Br.: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung, Abteilung für Wirtschaftspolitik und Ordnungsökonomik, 2018
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: H26 ; collaborative tax evasion ; O17 ; evasion rent ; C93 ; field experiment ; J22 ; E26
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  • Description: Sales from businesses to consumers provide fertile ground for collaborative tax evasion. However, little is known about the phenomenon. We conduct a natural field experiment with 2,900 businesses in which we take the role of consumers and vary if we request an invoice for the delivery of a service. We find that 56% of businesses approach consumers with the intention to evade. The fraction is zero in the regulated market and 72% in the unregulated market. It increases when consumers signal their willingness to collude. Consumers can save 25% of the legal price on average if they agree to evade.
  • Access State: Open Access