Collaborative tax evasion in the provision services to consumers: a field experiment

We conduct a field experiment with sellers of home-improvement services on two German online markets. We take the role of consumers and vary whether we request an invoice for the delivery of the service. In a market which allows anyone to sell anonymously, a willingness to evade is prevalent. In a m...

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Hauptverfasser: Doerr, Anabelle (VerfasserIn), Necker, Sarah 1982- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Mannheim, Germany ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research 2021
Schriftenreihe:ZEW discussion papers 21-024 (03/2021)
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Zusammenfassung:We conduct a field experiment with sellers of home-improvement services on two German online markets. We take the role of consumers and vary whether we request an invoice for the delivery of the service. In a market which allows anyone to sell anonymously, a willingness to evade is prevalent. In a market that keeps track of credentials, sellers are only willing to evade when a willingness to collude is signaled. The evasion discount is in most estimates not larger than the tax subsidy for legal demand. Evasion is unlikely to be beneficial for many consumers in our setting.
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