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Compliance effects of risk-based tax audits

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  • Torsvik, Gaute
  • Raaum, Oddbjørn
  • Løyland, Knut
  • Øvrum, Arnstein

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Tax administrations use machine learning to predict risk scores as a basis for selecting individual taxpayers for audit. Audits detect noncompliance immediately, but may also alter future filing behavior. This analysis is the first to estimate compliance effects of audits among high-risk wage earners. We exploit a sharp audit assignment discontinuity in Norway based on individual tax payers risk score. Additional data from a random audit allow us to estimate how the audit effect vary across the risk score distribution. We show that the current risk score audit threshold is set far above the one that maximizes net public revenue.

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  • Torsvik, Gaute & Raaum, Oddbjørn & Løyland, Knut & Øvrum, Arnstein, 2019. "Compliance effects of risk-based tax audits," OSF Preprints 6u3ns_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:6u3ns_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/6u3ns_v1
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