Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance

• Tác giả: Anne Brockmeyer
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 336.20 Public finance
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 314829
• Chủ đề: 1. CONSUMER TRANSACTION; 2. GLOBAL PAYMENT; 3. PAYMENT METHOD; 4. TAX COMPLIANCE; 5. TAX-INCLUSIVE PRICE

Tóm tắt

Does the digitization of transactions in an economy increase tax compliance This paper studies the effect of financial incentives on the adoption of electronic payment technology and on tax compliance by firms. Exploiting administrative data and policy variation from Uruguay, the paper shows that i) consumer value-added tax rebates for credit and debit card transactions trigger an immediate 50 percent increase in the number of card transactions, ii) firms' use of card machines increases only on the intensive margin, and iii) tax compliance is unaffected. Endogenous card machine adoption and a low share of card sales in total reported sales can rationalize the findings.