Tax Evasion from Cross-Border Fraud : Does Digitalization Make a Difference? /

How can governments reduce the prevalence of cross-border tax fraud? This paper argues that the use of digital technologies offers an opportunity to reduce fraud and increase government revenue. Using data on intra-EU and world trade transactions, we present evidence that (i) cross-border trade tax...

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मुख्य लेखक: Kitsios, Emmanouil
अन्य लेखक: Jalles, Joao Tovar, Verdier, Genevieve
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/245
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Full text available on IMF
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सारांश:How can governments reduce the prevalence of cross-border tax fraud? This paper argues that the use of digital technologies offers an opportunity to reduce fraud and increase government revenue. Using data on intra-EU and world trade transactions, we present evidence that (i) cross-border trade tax fraud is non-trivial and prevalent in many countries; (ii) such fraud can be alleviated by the use of digital technologies at the border; and (iii) potential revenue gains of digitalization from reducing trade fraud could be substantial. Halving the distance to the digitalization frontier could raise revenues by over 1.5 percent of GDP in low-income developing countries.
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