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The unobserved economy and the Dutch national accounts after the benchmark revision 2015

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  • Kazemier Brugt

    (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, The Hague, Netherlands)

  • van Veen Michel

    (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, The Hague, Netherlands)

  • IJmker Sander

    (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, The Hague, Netherlands)

Abstract

In 2018, Statistics Netherlands carried out a general benchmark revision of their national accounts statistics. The base year was 2015. Special attention was paid to the exhaustiveness of the estimates. Among other, these include estimates for illegal activities and tax evasion. In the first step, the main (illegal and off the record) activities that were not included in the regular data sources underlying the national accounts were identified. In the second step, estimates were made for each identified activity, based on the scarce information data sources available, supplemented with assumptions. This paper describes the second step. The value added of illegal activities in 2015 was estimated at 4.8 billion euros, which is 0.7% of gross domestic product (GDP). The explicit adjustment for tax evasion was about 3.9 billion euros, which is slightly

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  • Kazemier Brugt & van Veen Michel & IJmker Sander, 2019. "The unobserved economy and the Dutch national accounts after the benchmark revision 2015," Central European Economic Journal, Sciendo, vol. 6(53), pages 1-24, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:ceuecj:v:6:y:2019:i:53:p:1-24:n:1
    DOI: 10.2478/ceej-2019-0002
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    Keywords

    national accounts; illegal activities; tax evasion; underground economy;
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    JEL classification:

    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy

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