Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312449 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Tax and Public Finance [ISSN:] 1573-6970 [Volume:] 30 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 849-878
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
In order to stop Value-Added Tax (VAT) fraud, EU member states use the so-called reverse-charge (RC) mechanism, which effectively removes VAT withholding and refunding in business-to-business transactions. Using the German VAT return data, we examine the effects of the introduction of RC and find that requests of input tax refunding decline sharply in the affected industries, supporting the presence of fraud prior to the introduction of RC. Based on our estimates, we quantify the revenue losses from VAT fraud prior to RC implementation in these industries to be around 5% of VAT revenues.
Subjects: 
Value-added tax
Reverse charge
Tax fraud
Missing-trader fraud
JEL: 
H21
H26
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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