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Higher taxes, more evasion? Evidence from border differentials in TV license fees

This paper studies the evasion of TV license fees in Austria. We exploit border differentials to identify the effect of fees on evasion. Comparing municipalities at the low- and high-fee side of state borders reveals that higher fees trigger significantly more evasion. Our preferred estimator indicates that a one percent increase in fees raises the evasion rate by 0.3 percentage points. The positive effect of fees on evasion is confirmed in different parametric and non-parametric approaches and survives several robustness checks.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:5756
Date10 February 2016
CreatorsBerger, Melissa, Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde, Sausgruber, Rupert, Traxler, Christian
PublisherElsevier
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, PeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
RightsCreative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Relationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.01.007, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-public-economics, http://epub.wu.ac.at/5756/

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