James Alm,刘勇政,张珂玮——INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE:Financial Constraints and Firm Tax Evasion
时间:2019-02-12
Most analyses of tax evasion examine individual behavior, not firm behavior, given obvious and recognized data issues. We use data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey to examine tax evasion at the firm level, focusing on a novel determinant of firm tax evasion: the financial constraints (or credit constraints) faced by the firm. Our empirical results indicate across a range of alternative specifications that more financially constrained firms are more likely to be inv