Simplified tax regimes for micro and small enterprises in developing countries are intended to facilitate voluntary tax compliance. However, survey evidence suggests that small business taxation based...
This study attempts to estimate tax compliance costs and assess views of taxpayers on aspects of the tax system in Ethiopia. The study uses evidence mainly from a survey of both formal and informal businesses...
As the use of e-fi ling of tax returns has spread from developed to developing
countries, it has been clear that this sort of reform can reduce errors and opportunities for corruption. Also, it has...
The World Bank Group conducted a study, using data from a number of surveys of businesses in developing countries, to investigate the association between the use of specialized tax software and total tax...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between electronic filing (e-filing) and the total tax compliance costs incurred by small and medium size businesses in developing countries...
The report represents the main results of IFC's 2010 survey of private sector companies and individual entrepreneurs in Armenia. Its findings evaluate the cost of compliance with tax legislation and supervisory...
The report represents the main results of IFC's 2010 survey of private sector companies and individual entrepreneurs in Armenia. Its findings evaluate the cost of compliance with tax legislation and supervisory...
Businesses especially small ones often face heavy costs in the process of preparing, filing, and paying taxes in addition to the burden of tax payments. These compliance costs, added to fines, penalties...
This paper is based on large-scale surveys of formal and informal small businesses in South Africa, including questions about their experiences and perceptions about tax compliance, tax morale, and related...
The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa regarding tax compliance costs to investigate the use of outsourcing to complete tax compliance...
At the request of the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS, a multi-donor facility of the World Bank Group) provided assistance...
Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in reforms to improve company registries in developing and transition countries, with a major focus on legal and institutional reforms. In...
In many developing countries (both poor and middle-income), business owners complain that tax compliance costs (i.e. cost of preparing, handling, and submitting required tax forms to the country's tax...
This paper analyzes land transactions between municipalities and private businesses based on official data and business surveys in 15 regions of the Russian Federation. Since the Russian Federation passed...
EMU Enlargement: why flexibility matters, by Philipp Maier and Maarten Hendrikx. Gains from risk sharing in the EU, by Yuliya Demyanyk and Vadym Volosovych. Postponing Euro area expectations? by Tanel...
EMU Enlargement: why flexibility matters, by Philipp Maier and Maarten Hendrikx. Gains from risk sharing in the EU, by Yuliya Demyanyk and Vadym Volosovych. Postponing Euro area expectations? by Tanel...
Government inspections of firms are important for enforcing regulations to protect public health, safety, and the environment and to carry out economic functions such as tax collection and banking regulation...
This background paper reviews the reform of the state inspections system in Latvia from 1999 through 2003. The aim of the case study is to illuminate the political and institutional reform elements and...