2019
DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12310
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Value‐Added Tax, Input–Output Linkages and Informality

Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of adopting a value‐added tax (VAT) on the size of the informal sector across different activities. Under VAT, formal traders desire to purchase their inputs from formal suppliers for a deduction in their tax bill. I model this ‘self‐enforcement’ feature of VAT on an input–output economy and quantify it among different activities using a forward linkage index. The administration can reduce the size of the informal economy by reallocating the audits to activities with higher backw… Show more

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“…Value Added Tax (VAT) is a tax that is collected and charged to personal taxpayers or corporate taxpayers who have become Taxable Entrepreneurs (PKP) for the sale and purchase of goods and services [5]. The legal basis for the imposition of VAT tax is the Basic Law No.…”
Section: Value Added Tax (Vat)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Value Added Tax (VAT) is a tax that is collected and charged to personal taxpayers or corporate taxpayers who have become Taxable Entrepreneurs (PKP) for the sale and purchase of goods and services [5]. The legal basis for the imposition of VAT tax is the Basic Law No.…”
Section: Value Added Tax (Vat)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is precisely so that he can apply input VAT and thus reduce his tax liability to the state. In the article Hoseini [9] describes this property as a "self-enforcing" property and thoroughly examines in the links between VAT payers, VAT, non-VAT payers and the impact on economic sectors.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Latin America, for instance, only about 8.5 per cent of the population in the first quintile of the income distribution receive social insurance benefits, and this share goes down to 5 per cent and 1.6 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa and among low-income countries, respectively (Niño-Zarazúa 2019). Firms operating in the informal economy also face barriers to entry into consumer markets and value chains in industrial production due to low productivity and low-quality products (La Porta and Shleifer 2014;Masatlioglu and Rigolini 2008), credit rationing from formal lenders (Straub 2005;Wellalage and Locke 2016), and exclusion from tax benefits and other government schemes (Hoseini 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%