The Effects of Introducing Withholding on Tax Compliance: Evidence from Pennsylvania’s Local Earned Income Tax
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Keywords
Earned income tax; Tax compliance; Withholding; Event Study;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- R51 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2022-11-21 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2022-11-21 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2022-11-21 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2022-11-21 (Public Finance)
- NEP-URE-2022-11-21 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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