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Tax Evasion and Self-Employment in a High-Tax Country: Evidence from Sweden
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Abstract Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. This paper uses recent Swedish income and expenditure data to examine the extent of underreporting of income among self-employed individuals. A key hypothesis is that underreporting of incom... view more
Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. This paper uses recent Swedish income and expenditure data to examine the extent of underreporting of income among self-employed individuals. A key hypothesis is that underreporting of incomes among the self-employed would be visible in the data as “excess food consumption”, for a given level of observed income. Our results confirm the underreporting hypothesis. In particular, we estimate that households with at least one self-employed member underreport their total incomes by around 30 percent. Under-reporting appears to be much more prevalent among self-employed people with unincorporated businesses as among those with incorporated businesses.... view less
Classification
National Economy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 2419-2430
Journal
Applied Economics, 41 (2009) 19
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701765452
ISSN
1466-4283
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)