Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84884 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
arqus Discussion Paper No. 146
Publisher: 
Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus), Berlin
Abstract: 
Due to empirical research, tax and accounting compliance costs are a considerable burden for private businesses. However, cost estimates may be biased due to survey nonresponse and questionnaire framing effects. This paper investigates the impact of both aspects on the estimated cost burden. I do not find significant evidence for a non-response bias. By contrast, my results indicate that framing effects regarding the temporal dimension of cost measurement (temporal framing effects) might alter cost estimates by up to 68 percent downwards (respectively 211 percent upwards). There is also evidence that temporal framing effects are more relevant for small self-employed businesses with limited information capacities and accounting obligations as well as for internal cost burdens.
Subjects: 
compliance cost measurement
measurement error
non-response bias
temporal framing effect
JEL: 
H25
K34
M41
M42
M48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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