Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263721 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9791
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We investigate effects of tax reporting institutions on evasion and incidence using an experimental double auction market setting. 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 only sellers report, 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 can be explained by a model of lying costs with image concerns that give rise to a motivation to appear honest.
Subjects: 
tax evasion
tax incidence
third-party reporting
double auction
social image
experiment
JEL: 
H21
H22
H26
D40
D44
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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