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| Title: | | Tax return as a political statement  |
| Authors: | | Libman, Alexander Schultz, André Graeber, Thomas |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series // Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 169 |
| Abstract: | | The accuracy of a tax return is usually interpreted as an outcome of the tax evasion decision by an individual. However, in non-democratic regimes with predatory blackmail tax systems it is possible that large sums voluntarily reported by influential politicians or businessmen may be used as political statements. By openly acknowledging one's personal income an individual can signal the strength of one's position, or, on the contrary, the submissiveness to the political leadership. In this paper we explore the idea of the tax return as a political statement and test it using a unique dataset of the tax returns filed by the Russian regional governors and the members of their families for the year 2009. Our results conjecture that Russian governors may deliberately file their tax return as a political statement to signal their strength vis-à-vis the central government. |
| Subjects: | | tax compliance communication in non-democracies Russian regions |
| JEL: | | D73 D78 H26 P26 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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