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Within the framework of today's modern taxation approach, generally accepted taxation principles are taken into account when taxation is carried out. States plan and implement the tax practices that they include in their tax systems in accordance with the principles of taxation by adhering to certain rules. Various taxation principles have been identified in the public finance literature over time, and the principle of fairness is at the top of these principles. The concept of ability to pay is of critical importance in taxation in accordance with the principle of justice, which envisages the fair and equal distribution of the tax burden among taxpayers. Although the indicators of ability to pay are income, expenditure and wealth, these indicators are insufficient to fully grasp the ability to pay. Therefore, in order to accurately determine the ability to pay in tax systems, in addition to these indicators, the techniques of progressivity, minimum subsistence allowance and the principle of separation are utilized. In this study, in which the aforementioned techniques within the framework of the principle of fairness in taxation are discussed theoretically together with positive and negative opinions, tax practices serving the relevant techniques in our country have been evaluated; in this context, it has been understood that the technique of progressive proportionality has been adopted in different tax types and the separation principle technique has been adopted with the minimum subsistence allowance in wages, which is one of the elements of income.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taxes today are regarded as instruments for social policy and policy of redistribution of income and wealth. Tax equality and equity represent essential components of a welfare state. Theoretical debates around the role of social and political principles in taxation in modern conditions obtain even greater significance. Today, almost all modern countries, aiming towards improved equity in taxation and achieving social equality, have incorporated the principles of equality and equity within the framework of constitutional norms. The principle of equality of citizens in front of the law, including the Tax law is in direct correlation with the principle of economic and social solidarity. The paper focuses on the principles of tax law which are in direct correlation with social equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Companies avoid taxes in a variety of ways and use different methods to do that, one of the most common being earnings management. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether companies manipulate their financial data in order to reduce taxes paid. Design/methodology/approach: We considered a sample of 63 listed Romanian companies for the period 2016–2021. The Beneish model was used for estimating earnings management, and the effective tax rate was used to measure tax avoidance. The analysis was carried out using regression analysis in Stata13 software. Findings: The findings of the research indicate a negative and statistically significant association between effective tax rate and earnings management, implying that one of the main reasons why companies manipulate their earnings to reduce tax burden and avoid taxes. Moreover, our results show that return on assets (ROA) has a statistically significant negative influence on the effective tax rate. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that firm size, growth, and Big4 audit have no effect on effective tax rate. Research limitations/implications: Because it analyzes concrete cases using financial data and provides some recommendations for addressing the issue of tax avoidance, this work is useful in advancing both quantitative and qualitative research on this topic. This research is relevant for businesses, governments, regulators, audit professionals and investors. Originality/value: The study, by analyzing concrete cases using reported financial data, contributes in filling the gap within the literature that results from a lack of scientific research on the relationship between tax avoidance and earnings management, and then it clarifies the nature of the causal connection between them. Moreover, it considers a combination of firm related variables including performance, size and also audit quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current phase of global economic growth is witnessing a convergence of interests among macro-level entities such as home countries, host countries, and third countries, associated with income and profit receipt. Concurrently, meso-level actors have emerged in the form of extensive cross-industry partnerships. Additionally, macro-level entities, such as international organizations, state associations, and supranational bodies, are playing a significant role. Considering that tax policies exert a substantial influence on a nation's economic dynamics, innovative activity, and competitiveness, assessing the impact of tax burden on the degree of economic freedom within countries is significant. This study aims to identify the ideal level of the tax burden, and its results have implications for various aspects of economic development. This research contributes to encouraging economic growth, fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, ensuring social justice, and improving the overall quality of life for the population. The model proposed in this study can be used for determining the ideal level of taxes (tax burden), thus striking a balance between societal and economic needs as well as the effect of taxation on economic freedom in a country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper endeavours to investigate whether a complex tax system influences firms' propensity toward tax evasion across countries. To achieve the objectives of this study, we utilised the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the World Bank's Doing Business databases covering more than 46,000 companies from 83 countries. Our study revealed that the increased time required to pay taxes and higher total tax payments were associated with a greater extent and incidence of tax evasion among firms. The consistency of these benchmark regression results was proven through endogeneity analysis and several robustness tests. Furthermore, our heterogeneity analyses showed that the effect of tax complexity on firm tax evasion was more prominent in low- and lower-middle-income countries and also in the primary industry. These findings offer promising evidence for policymakers, particularly in low- and lower-middle-income countries where the majority of companies operate in the primary industry. Addressing the complexity of the tax system could potentially mitigate the adverse impact on tax evasion levels in these countries. Furthermore, our spatial analysis provides valuable insights, emphasising the potential impact of tax complexity in neighbouring countries and underscoring the necessity for policymakers in the home countries to strategise on harmonising and streamlining their tax systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Housing taxation is considered the most obvious tax system inequity. Therefore, this type of taxation should be in line with the benefit principle. This article examines the attitudes of citizens towards residential building taxation in the Czech Republic. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the perception of residential building tax burden by taxpayers who own a house or apartment for housing based on primary research. The research was conducted in the Czech Republic using a questionnaire in 2021 and 2022. Differences in the tax burden perception in relation to improvements in quality of life in a municipality and use of compensation by providing financial benefit in favor of resident citizens are investigated in the context of municipality size. It was found that the majority of respondents in all municipality size categories perceived the tax burden as reasonable. Citizens' positive attitudes towards the taxation of their residential buildings were influenced not only by the quality-of-life improvement in the municipality, but also by the transparency of the municipality's financial management. By compensating for the tax on residential buildings through providing a financial benefit, some municipalities reduced the tax burden for their resident citizens and shifted the tax burden, within the limits of the law, to buildings for business and recreation. The most common forms of financial benefits included reducing or eliminating municipal waste fees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate effects of tax reporting institutions on evasion and incidence using an experimental double auction market. We find that 28% of the sellers are truthful when only sellers report, but that 88% and 64% of them are truthful under costless and costly third-party reporting by buyers, respectively. Reporting behavior therefore responds to the intensity of deterrence. However, we find that prices do not fully reflect the lower taxes of the evaders. Thus, when sellers can unilaterally evade taxes, tax incidence deviates from the prediction of the standard model, and there is deadweight loss even if tax revenue is low. Pricing, incidence, and reporting patterns in all treatments are consistent with a model with heterogeneous lying costs, or a combination of lying costs and image concerns that give rise to a motivation to appear honest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Married couples can face a higher or lower tax burden than cohabitating couples with the same income when the former are taxed as one unit. I study the effect of such joint income taxation on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and cohabitating couples vary considerably across cantons. For this purpose, I construct a dataset containing sociodemographic and -economic variables on every individual living in Switzerland and use household-level information to identify cohabitating couples. Using a simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples married between 2012 and 2019. The effect is driven by households without children and from the lower end of the income distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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FDI may have beneficial effects on economic development. On the other hand, the presence of foreign investment leads to foreign interest, which has the potential to minimize tax burden by exploiting cross-border tax policy discretion. This study examines the influence of foreign interest on the tax avoidance practices of firms in Indonesia. This is quantitative research using a sample of firms listed in the IDX80 index with a financial reporting period of 2018-2021. The results of this study indicate that foreign ownership has a positive effect on tax avoidance. Meanwhile, the number of foreign commissioners and the number of foreign directors does not affect tax avoidance. Apart from contributing to the theory, this study is also a concern for the DGT in anticipating the risk of tax avoidance by foreign capital firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a theoretical approach to tax incentives, direct taxes and their incidence on cooperatives, it was sought to identify the current Latin American legal systems for Income Tax. Especially, the norms that include the legal figures for the release of the tax are analyzed, verifying its scope, requirements and procedures for its application. It is based on the fact that the granting of incentives is based on the principle of tax equity and on the recognition of the countries about the benefits that they contribute to social and economic development. Therefore, the research is based on theoretical guidelines on incentives and equity for cooperatives. It is recognized that the region is heterogeneous but that it shares legal similarities, which makes it possible to contrast its regulations. For this reason, the comparative method was considered suitable. With this, the particularities of the normative systems of seventeen nations were understood, through the confrontation of their tax precepts, allowing the identification of their convergences and divergences. The results show that most of the countries integrate exemptions in the various legal devices and, to a lesser extent, countries that tax cooperatives with reduced rates or tariffs were distinguished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This text aims to assess the distributional impacts of taxation and spending on cash transfers, taking into account gender, race, class and intersectionality. To this end, the 2017/18 Household Budget Survey is used to estimate the impact of taxation and spending on cash transfers and the usual indicators of income concentration - the Gini index and the Concentration Coefficients. The findings show that the tax system burdens blacks more than whites and women more than men, mainly due to the position these groups occupy in the income distribution. Direct taxation, which has a greater impact on men and whites, is not able to completely mitigate the concentrated effect of indirect taxation, which penalizes blacks and women more. On the other hand, social spending on cash transfers is pro-poor, pro-women and pro-black, fulfilling its expected redistributive role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rising wealth inequality and squeezed public budgets has brought wealth tax back into policy discussions. A net wealth tax might help to boost state revenue and reduce wealth inequality. Yet little is known about citizens' attitudes towards the design of a net wealth tax (i.e. the tax unit, exemption and rate). Using a novel multifactorial survey experiment, we examine citizens' endorsement of fundamental principles of taxation. Building on policy feedback theory, we examine if preferences differ in three policy arenas (USA, Germany and UK) and whether individuals' reasoning is dependent on self-interest. While a clear majority in all three countries generally endorses a wealth tax, our findings show that citizens care more about the amount exempted than the tax unit or rate. We do not identify a preference for any specific tax unit. Furthermore, tax preferences seem to be strikingly similar among citizens of all three countries. Yet we show that individuals are mostly concerned about not being personally affected by such a tax, which is reflected in their preference for substantial exemptions. We discuss our findings with regard to our understanding of wealth inequality, tax equity and the potential implications for policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper studies commodity taxation in a model featuring heterogeneous consumers, imperfect competition, and tax salience. We derive new formulas for the incidence and marginal excess burden of commodity taxation highlighting interactions between tax salience and market structure. We estimate the necessary inputs to the formulas by using Nielsen Retail Scanner and Consumer Panel data covering grocery stores and households in the U.S. and detailed sales tax data. We estimate a large amount of pass-through of taxes onto consumer prices and find that households respond more to changes in prices than taxes. We also estimate significant heterogeneity in tax salience across households. We calibrate our new formulas using these results and conclude that essentially all of the incidence of sales taxes falls on consumers, and the marginal excess burden of taxation is larger than estimates based on standard formulas that ignore imperfect competition and tax salience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We use firm-level data from a Colombian manufacturing survey, complemented with data from the tax department, to test the effect of firms' total tax and contribution rate (TCR) on the ratio of innovation expenditures to sales. We construct a data panel from 2003 to 2018 comprising 104,762 observations and implement fixed effects and instrumental variables estimation methods. Our results suggest that an increase of one percentage point in direct taxation leads to a decrease of 0.10% in the probability that firms engage in innovation investments, and market power moderates this effect. We discuss distinctive features of the effect of taxation on innovation in emerging economies—one being the inability of local innovation clusters to temper it. Policy implications include considering modifications to the magnitude and composition of the TCR as an alternative to R&D tax credits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: This paper aims to understand what green tax measures Portuguese corporate tax law foresees and whether the measures observe the polluter pays tax principle. Design/methodology/approach: The legal research method is applied to achieve the goals. Specifically, the research analyzes the most relevant corporate tax legislation to identify legal provisions influencing taxpayers' behavior in sustainability decisions, particularly corporate income tax (CIT) and value-added tax (VAT) laws. Findings: The results show that the Portuguese Green Taxation Law introduces several environmentally friendly taxation measures by benefiting or increasing the tax burden. The influence on the CIT law results from instruments such as the autonomous taxation of expenses, depreciation, provisions and the local corporate tax. In the VAT, electric tourism vehicles' VAT deduction is possible. These measures enforce the polluter pays tax principle, increasing the tax burden on less environmentally friendly options and decreasing the tax burden on more green economic choices. These measures directly influence the companies' choice because of the increase or decrease tax burden according to more or less polluting choices. Research limitations/implications: This study only studies the Portugal case. Originality/value: This study highlights the Portuguese experience reconciling taxation and environmental dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the interpretation of specific European Union (EU) legal provisions related to value-added tax (VAT) and income tax in the context of international road freight transport. Topics include the criteria for VAT exemption on transport services associated with imported goods, the disqualification of VAT exemption based on the absence of specific documents, and the limitations imposed on cross-border service providers regarding the deduction of business expenses and taxation.

This research entitled analysis of the VAT refund for senior citizens, Portoviejo canton was developed with the aim of analyzing the reasons why senior citizens do not make the request for a refund of value added tax. The research was field-based, its scope was descriptive and exploratory, and its non-experimental-transversal design. A questionnaire was applied to the elderly, the validation of the content of the questionnaire was done through the expert judgment and its reliability through the calculation of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The results of the research show that 64% of elderly people are not familiar with the IVA refund benefit, as it can be concluded that it is due to the limited dissemination of effective and transparent by the entity collecting the tax, of the tax benefits available to elderly people in the Canton of Portoviejo, in order to improve their well-being and quality of life, and ensure a fairer distribution of the tax burden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to generalize and systematize the provisions on the formation of tax policy in the EU countries. The dynamics of the indicator of the ratio of tax revenues to GDP in 27 EU countries during the period 2013–2022 is studied. It is found that the average value of this indicator for the EU-27 is 37.0%. A rather significant differentiation of the tax burden in the context of European countries is recorded, the lowest value observed in Ireland – 24.0%, and the maximum – in France – 47.4%. In general, a moderate level of tax burden is observed in the sample of Central European and Baltic countries. Using the method of correlation and regression analysis, it is found that for the EU countries in 2013–2022, with an increase in the tax burden by 1 percentage point, the real growth rate of the economy slows down by 0.215 percentage points, and the stochastic dependence is significant, but not too strong. In further research, it is important to pay attention to other factors influencing the growth rate of the real economy. Tax service is a key institution in the field of public revenue mobilization, in the EU-27 countries 62% of the total State revenues are collected by the tax authorities. The article pays attention to the study of the compositional tax structure both in the context of taxation of factors of production and individual taxes. Labor taxes account for the highest share in the tax structure in the EU Member States, followed by consumption taxes, and capital taxes are the least fiscally important. The determinant of the formation of the tax policy of European countries is competition in the international market to attract the main factors of production – labor and capital, which necessitates the creation of favorable conditions for their taxation. In the EU countries, there are unified taxation rules that apply to both minimum tax rates (VAT, excise duty) and control procedures, the principles of production and circulation of excisable goods, etc. In the EU member states, a standard and reduced VAT rate is used, the latter is a fiscal tool for maintaining social stability in society. The priorities of the tax authorities in the EU countries are the improvement of administration procedures, the expansion and modification of digital taxpayer services, the implementation of the institutional model of the State tax risk management and scenario modeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Summary: Motivation: In recent years, governments in low‐income countries have increasingly introduced taxes on mobile money transfers. These are often explicitly promoted as a way of taxing informal economic activity, but critics have noted their potential negative impact on lower‐income groups and specifically those in the informal sector. Yet there is virtually no evidence base on the effects of mobile money taxes on informal workers. Purpose: This article assesses how informal workers in Accra, Ghana, use mobile money and how they perceive Ghana's Electronic Transfer Levy (E‐levy), introduced in May 2022. This provides a particularly interesting case study to explore the equity implications of the tax, as the policy was explicitly justified as a way of taxing the informal economy but also includes measures to limit the tax burden on lower‐income groups. Methods and approach: The article uses data from a survey of 2,700 self‐employed informal workers in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to capture citizen perceptions of the policy and to examine the likely impact of the E‐levy on informal workers with reference to equity. Findings: Overall, our results suggest that the E‐levy is highly regressive. Further, we show that most informal workers disapprove of the E‐levy, reflecting not just concerns about its equity impacts, but also disappointment with the government's performance. Policy implications: Our findings suggest that taxes on digital financial services should be reconsidered from an equity perspective. While some policy measures, including those undertaken in Ghana, can protect low‐income earners, they are often insufficient to counteract overall regressive impacts. Where they are implemented, social spending from the revenue from these taxes should target low‐income populations in the informal economy, while governments should focus on building trust among informal workers with regard to revenue raising and spending. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using microsimulations this paper analyzes the poverty and tax implications of replacing current transfers and subsidies by a budget-neutral (no change in the fiscal deficit) universal basic income program (UBI) in Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa. We consider three UBI transfers with increasing levels of generosity and identify scenarios in which the poor are no worse off than in the baseline scenario of existing social transfers. We find that for poverty levels not to increase under a UBI reform, the level of spending must increase substantially with respect to the baseline. Accordingly, the required increase in tax burdens is high throughout. We find that the increase in the average tax rate that would be consistent with not hurting the poor is almost universally above 30%, limiting the feasibility of a UBI reform due to political resistance and efficiency costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the way competitiveness is measured matters, as well as to analyze the relationship between tax burden and economic competitiveness using a variety of model specifications. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses statistical models aimed at finding the relationship between taxes and different measures of economic competitiveness, such as gross domestic product per capita, employment and a third-party competitiveness index. Other variables are also considered, and statistical procedures such as lag specifications and "white period" errors are used to address problems of endogeneity and serial correlation. Findings: The models find no robust relationship between taxes and competitiveness. Certain models find correlations between the tax burden of specific income groups with economic competitiveness, but these vary in direction and are difficult to interpret. This follows past research, which shows different results depending on the period analyzed, measure of competitiveness and other variables used. Originality/value: This paper looks at many of the different measures of competitiveness, control variables and periods that are used in the previous literature and shows how any changes to these model specifications cause inconsistent results. This paper highlights that, because results can vary greatly depending on the model, researchers and policymakers must be careful when drawing any conclusions from relationships between taxes and economic competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Digital Service Tax was introduced to the Turkish tax legislation with Act 7194 published in the Official Gazette dated 07.12.2019. However, the Digital Service Tax, like any tax, must comply with the constitutional principles of taxation. There are seven principles of taxation in the financial sense in the constitution. These principles are contained in article 73 of the constitution. There are principles related to taxation in other articles of the constitution. As a result, the Digital Service Tax is incompatible with the principle of tax justice, the principle of equality of tax, the principle of being able to pay taxation, the principle of the generality of tax, the principle of fair and balanced distribution of tax burden and the principle of legality of the tax, while it is compatible only with the principle that the tax should be the equivalent to public expenditures. These compatibilities and incompatibilities are also valid for the actions of the OECD and the EU on the digital economy. In other words, the Digital Service Tax does not comply with the conditions of the day either. The conclusion reached in general terms is that the digital service tax shows a severe incompatibility with the constitutional principles of taxation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question of land ownership is fundamental to any modern society and has been blamed as the root of numerous social inequalities. This paper explores one potential solution to the land question, Land Value Tax (LVT), which was first popularised in the 1880s by Henry George. Despite its long history, LVT has not been widely implemented, but recently proposals to replace existing property taxes with this form of taxation have re-emerged on the political scene. While the Welsh Government has recently explored the idea of introducing an LVT, there are limited studies on this form of taxation in the context of a discretionary planning system, such as the Welsh planning system. This paper conducts exploratory qualitative research using Wales as a case study. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews with experts across various related fields, primarily within taxation and planning, to establish the potential effects of LVT in practice, with a particular focus on how it might affect the equity of planning outcomes. Overall, the research showed that despite the strong theoretical potential, fundamental practical issues would diminish the ability of LVT to effectively influence planning. LVT is argued to be largely incompatible with a discretionary planning system (e.g., the Welsh planning system), and therefore, the research concluded that many of the potential benefits of LVT could be better achieved through reforms to existing taxes and planning processes, particularly land value capture mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Managers take into account the tax burden when they decide about a new investment; therefore, they seek countries with lower tax rates. Governments respond to these requirements and battle for new investments by lowering tax rates as part of tax competition. This study focuses on the Visegrád countries as a region of new foreign investments from other OECD countries, and analyses the determinants of a bilateral FDI position of equity. As a model, it uses dynamic panel regression with GMM estimation. Results show that FDIs are affected by the level of difference in corporate taxation and the size of both countries. Every other potential determinant has no effect on the level of investment. These results show that foreign investors care about tax burdens more when investing within the Visegrád Group. Visegrád countries are relatively close when considering conditions for business; therefore, the most important difference becomes the taxation of profits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the mechanics of sales taxes in the viceroyalty of New Granada (present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and western Venezuela) during the second half of the eighteenth century. Advocating a careful examination of the accounting, institutional, and fiscal practices of North Andean customs houses, it provides an extensive discussion on how tax records can be harnessed to study the scope and nature of Bourbon reforms and to measure trade flows. The article pursues three interrelated goals. First, it studies the impact of local negotiations and jurisdictional fragmentation on local rates and revenue collection, providing new insights into the concrete mechanisms of tax bargaining. Second, the study reinterprets data on the main North Andean entrepôts of trade to measure fiscal cycles, real tax pressure, and tax incidence. Proposing a new method for examining customs records, this research shows how fiscal concessions and economic cycles led to diminishing fiscal revenues. Finally, the research places the viceroyalty within the broader context of fiscal change in the Spanish Empire, arguing that the region collected fewer revenues not only because of its comparatively smaller economic activity but also because the combination of custom and reform yielded lower taxation rates and unique fiscal structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to identify factors influencing the shadow economy of the Ukrainian hospitality industry and to offer ways for its reduction. The result of the research has shown a high level of the shadow sector in the Ukrainian hospitality industry. This is facilitated by many factors but the most significant of them are high social security contributions and hefty taxes. The analysis reveals that the level of expenditures in the hospitality business is the highest, with the average salary being the lowest among considered sectors of the economy. This indicates that the sector is very labour-intensive, which contributes to an increase in tax burden and, as a result, an increase in the informal hospitality sector. We propose the main directions for reforming the tax system to reduce the level of the informal economy in the hospitality industry. Ukraine needs to introduce preferential VAT rates for the hotel business, and the accommodation sector needs more reduction of the standard rate. The practice of paying the tourist tax also needs to be reformed. According to the current legislation, the payers of the tourist tax are tourists, and the tax agents are the business entities of the accommodation sector, which are mostly "in the shadows". As a result, a significant part of tourists does not actually pay the tourist tax. The introducing a mechanism for paying the tourist tax, which would allow all tourists to be taxpayers, would create an opportunity for better financing and development of the tourist destination. To legalise the shadow sector in the hospitality industry it is also necessary to reduce the single tax rate for small businesses in this area. Such actions will not be associated with large losses for the budget. In addition, the experience of other countries shows the positive consequences of using this approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the drivers of the shadow economy within the Baltic region, emphasizing the role of financial development, a missing feature from the extant literature. To this end, we analyzed an annual dataset covering the 2009–2019 period for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania using panel ARDL and obtained Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimates. Empirical findings indicate that a rise in the tax burden, further financial development, and institutional development results in the expansion of the shadow economy. However, the establishment of the rule of law and political stability contribute to the contraction of the shadow economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As saliency of the tax burden increases, the preference for a lower burden increases, but most counties are restricted by the state from adopting new taxes or changing the existing rates. Some states allow counties to adopt a charter, freeing them from state control. Using a panel of Florida counties from 1980 to 2017, we explore whether citizens act to reduce their property tax once a charter is passed. Citizens act against their preferences not by lowering burden but rather by increasing it in the case of debt service, suggesting citizens are maximizing their optimal tax burden in exchange for services. Applications For Practice: The passage of a charter impacts the county's fiscal policy space.Citizens did not lower their total millage and operating millage rates after the passage of a charter.The presence of a charter was tied to increases in the tax burden of debt service.Citizens are not choosing to maximize their income by reducing their burden, but rather they are adjusting or expanding the public services provided by a county government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]