Optimal Tax Administration

Optimal Tax Administration
ISBN-10
1475570260
ISBN-13
9781475570267
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
27
Language
English
Published
2017-01-20
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Authors
Mr.Michael Keen, Mr.Joel Slemrod

Description

This paper sets out a framework for analyzing optimal interventions by a tax administration, one that parallels and can be closely integrated with established frameworks for thinking about optimal tax policy. Its key contribution is the development of a summary measure of the impact of administrative interventions—the “enforcement elasticity of tax revenue”—that is a sufficient statistic for the behavioral response to such interventions, much as the elasticity of taxable income serves as a sufficient statistic for the response to tax rates. Amongst the applications are characterizations of the optimal balance between policy and administrative measures, and of the optimal compliance gap.

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