Franzoni, Luigi Alberto
(1996)
Punishment and Grace: On the Economics of Permanent Amnesties.
Bologna:
Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE,
p. 18.
DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/5058.
In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE
(252).
ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract
This paper extends the literature on tax amnesties by consid-ering two special grace programmes. The first is an offer by the government not to investigate taxpayers' accounts, the second not to prosecute indicted evaders. I analyse the impact of both measures on the taxpayers' optimal behaviour and the government's net revenue, and derive the conditions under which it would be desir-able to implement them on a permanent basis.
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