Measuring the tax gap in the European economy

• Authors: Konrad Raczkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The objective of the paper is to reveal the methodology used to examine the tax gap and calculate the tax gap for all EU states over 2011-2014. The paper draws on the review of reference literature addressing the tax gap in the context of tax avoidance and tax evasion. The paper features the GDP size across countries so as to demonstrate the overall level of the shadow economy compared to the aggregate tax burden. Finally, for the first time, the calculations of the tax gap for all EU states over 2011-2014 were displayed.

Keywords

EN

European economy; Methodology; Shadow economy; Tax gap; Tax revenues

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Journal of Economics and Management
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 58-72

Contributors

author

Konrad Raczkowski

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Identifiers

ISSN

1732-1948