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Does Compulsory Voting Increase Collected Tax Revenues?

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  • Mihai Mutascu

    (West University of Timisoara, Department of Finance, Romania)

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The paper investigates the relationship between tax and type of voting by using GMM-system estimators. The data-set covers the period 2000-2010 and includes 122 countries. The main finding shows that the assumed function is linear, the compulsory voting tending to improve the tax collection. The transmission channel seems to have a motivational reason and shows that the citizens realize better the tax duty under compulsory voting. Hence, tax payment duty has new valences given its congruence with voting duty.

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  • Mihai Mutascu, 2020. "Does Compulsory Voting Increase Collected Tax Revenues?," Economic Research Guardian, Weissberg Publishing, vol. 10(2), pages 144-152, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wei:journl:v:10:y:2020:i:2:p:144-152
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    Keywords

    Tax revenues; Compulsory voting; Voluntary voting; Effects; Tax policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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