Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28090 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2009/3
Publisher: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin
Abstract: 
The paper analyses the relationship of tax compliance costs and business strategy. Due to instruments, like information technology, simplified cash accounting or outsourcing compliance activities to tax advisers, private businesses have a set of strategies to optimize their tax compliance cost burden. Under the assumption of rational choice a private business should choose a cost-optimal administration strategy. In spite of that we find empirical evidence for small German businesses using only insufficiently the support of external tax advisers. Therefore, a considerable number of small businesses in Germany could reduce their compliance cost burden by a higher degree of outsourcing tax processes. In contrast, we find no significant evidence for a cost reduction by an electronic data interchange with the tax and social insurance authorities or by a simplified cash accounting method for tax purposes.
Subjects: 
Tax complexity
tax compliance costs
bureaucracy costs
tax administration
administration strategy
business strategy
outsourcing
contracting out
e-filing
electronic data interchange, cash accounting
JEL: 
H25
H26
L23
L24
ISBN: 
3938369973
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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