02194cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017587 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475595147 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Dabla-Norris, Era. Tax Administration and Firm Performance : New Data and Evidence for Emerging Market and Developing Economies / Era Dabla-Norris, Florian Misch, Duncan Cleary, Munawer Khwaja. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (40 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Tax compliance costs tend to be disproportionately higher for small and young businesses. This paper examines how the quality of tax administration affects firm performance for a large sample of firms in emerging market and developing economies. We construct a novel, internationally comparable, and multidimensional index of tax administration quality (the TAQI) using information from the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool. We show that better tax administration attenuates the productivity gap of small and young firms relative to larger and older firms, a result that is robust to controlling for other aspects of tax policy and of economic governance, alternative definitions of small and young firms, and measures of the quality of tax administration. From a policy perspective, we provide evidence that countries can reap growth and productivity dividends from improvements in tax administration that lower compliance costs faced by firms. Mode of access: Internet Cleary, Duncan. Khwaja, Munawer. Misch, Florian. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/095 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/095/001.2017.issue-095-en.xml IMF e-Library