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Tax Evasion and Monopoly Output Decisions Revisited: Strategic Firm Behavior

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  • Sang-Ho Lee

    (Department of Economics, Chonnam National University, Korea)

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This note reexamines the model of tax evasion of the monopolistic firm with profit taxes by incorporating the firm's strategic behavior for tax avoidance. It is shown that under certain conditions, the monopolist's decisions on output and expenditure are no longer separable from the evasion decision and there is a trade-off between production efficiency and cost efficiency. We then derive the optimal profit tax rate to investigate some properties of profit taxation.

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  • Sang-Ho Lee, 2006. "Tax Evasion and Monopoly Output Decisions Revisited: Strategic Firm Behavior," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 5(1), pages 83-92, April.
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    Keywords

    tax evasion; strategic expenditure; optimal profit taxation;
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    JEL classification:

    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance

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