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    • Estimating tax noncompliance among the self-employed—evidence from pleasure boat registers
    Authors: Per Engström, Hagen Johannes; Edvard, Johansson;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2023)

    We improve upon the Pissarides-Weber method for estimating tax evasion among the self-employed by utilizing unique register-based consumption measures from the Swedish and Finnish mandatory registers for pleasure boats. This allows for more detailed and statistically powered analyses than survey-based applications. Our results indicate overall levels of hidden incomes that are in line with previous studies. However, the functional form analysis shows that the estimated sizes of underreporting in absolute monetary amounts are almost constant over reported income levels, whereas previous studies have assumed that the underreporting is proportional to income. The results from the prefere...