
handle: 10419/229484 , 10419/219394
Who benefits from the evasion of value added taxes (VAT)? Using a reform that enforced VAT on previously non-compliant large retailers in Armenia, we estimate a one-third passthrough of the tax burden on prices. This suggests that pre-enforcement evasion rents were broadly shared with consumers through lower prices. Our theoretical and empirical results explain this low passthrough rate by the supply-chain effects and second-order compliance responses of firms to VAT enforcement. Our distributional analysis shows that households at the bottom of the income distribution benefit more from the rents of evasion.
330, ddc:330, Incidence, H26, value added tax, passthrough, enforcement, evasion, Distributional Effects, distributional effects, Evasion, incidence, H22, Value added tax, Enforcement, D11
330, ddc:330, Incidence, H26, value added tax, passthrough, enforcement, evasion, Distributional Effects, distributional effects, Evasion, incidence, H22, Value added tax, Enforcement, D11
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