The majority of firms in developing countries are informal, and encouraging them to register with the tax authority has proven challenging and costly. This paper argues that incomplete tax filing among registered firms constitutes an important intermediate form of informality, which can be tackled with much higher cost-effectiveness. Using a nationwide randomized experiment in Costa Rica, The paper shows that credible enforcement emails tripled the...
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2016/10/05
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS7850
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2016/10/05
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Disclosed
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Casting the tax net wider : experimental evidence from Costa Rica
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tax authority