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1 14 December 2011 HMRC-HMT Economics of Taxation Policy design
2 Overview... Locating the subject within public economics Policy Design Background Objectives and constraints Optimal policy C&B Optimal policy Strategic Tax design 2
3 Issues in enforcement policy design Identify main policy rules based on utilitarian ethics using the principal model types Objectives reconcile with utilitarian goals? what guidance for tax agencies? Implications for tax policy what guidance for tax agencies? impact of level and structure of income tax on tax evasion? and vice versa? Feedback to tax design For overviews: Cowell (2004), Slemrod and Yitzhaki (2002) 3
4 The principal economic actors Government Corruption model Tax Authority Inspector Inspector Inspector Taxpayers The key players Control & reporting, simple constitution Delegation Tax farming Further delegation Control & reporting, full delegation 4
5 Government Control? Government is denied direct information about citizens Is therefore denied some measure of control Multi-layered structure Different types of concealed information and control failure? Leads to different types of economic model Fundamental difference between types of control failure 1 Tax-evasion: Assumes effectively a two-level model Version 1 (Government, taxpayer). Assumes complete internal compliance; external non-compliance. Version 2 (Tax authority, taxpayer). A simplified model of delegation. 2 Corruption: focus on incentives facing the inspector level Taxpayer offers payment to inspector to reduce prob of punishment Inspector is monitored by authority. 5
6 Questions in enforcement policy Policy questions from previous lecture What is the optimum degree of enforcement? Can smart auditing improve efficiency? Move beyond this to broader questions Should we try to eliminate evasion? Often an implicit objective But on what grounds? Implications of devolution of function Not just lack of control Also the type of objective function Implications for tax design? 6
7 Connection with previous topic Related to compliance lecture Examine general issues of breakdown in fiscal relationships tax under-reporting is one example also black/shadow economy And the mechanisms that may act as insulation institutions social factors 7
8 Overview... Limitations of standard utilitarian model Policy Design Background Objectives and constraints Optimal policy C&B Optimal policy Strategic 8
9 Modelling issues What is the appropriate objective? Law enforcement? Eliminate evasion? Welfare of law-abiding citizens? Utilitarianism? What institutional structure? Direct government-taxpayer relation? Tax collection/enforcement agencies? What components of the enforcement problem? requires a multi-stage approach see Cowell (1989) 9
10 Utilitarian enforcement problem Basic behavioural model taxpayer maximises expected utility Eu(c) = Eu([1 t] y + r te) y: taxable income t: proportionate tax rate e: concealed income r : rate of return to evasion (= s with prob p, 1 with prob 1 p) Outcome of basic model determines optimal evasion response e * = e(p, s, t; y, a) in general depends on both tax and enforcement parameters (p, s, t) and on personal characteristics (y, a) Welfare model Take expected utility of representative taxpayer as welfare criterion W = [1 p] u([1 t] y + te) + p u([1 t] y ste) where y = y, a = a (representative taxpayer) (so we can drop y, a from optimal evasion response) 10
11 Fundamental constraints Realities for the government / tax agency a fixed revenue requirement R cost of enforcement φ(p) where φ is an increasing function in utilitarian model φ may include private compliance costs Government budget constraint R R which implies ty rte φ(p) R where r is the expected rate of return to evasion, 1 p ps zero evasion if p p 0 where φ(p 0 ) = ty R Welfare contour for utilitarianism [1 p] u([1 t] y + te) + p u([1 t] y ste) = const where e = e(p, s, t) Evasion eliminated where rate of return is zero: s = [1 p]/p gives zero-evasion contour where welfare is u([1 t] y) = W 0 so determines boundary of honesty set 11
12 Model types Problem essentially has three control variables, p, s, t Three stages in the approach to the solution Keep t fixed enforcement authority has considerable, but not total, discretion can trade off severity of penalty against probability of detection Keep s or p fixed unmovable penal system inflexible police system trade off tax against an enforcement parameter Vary p, s, t together Total flexibility 12
13 The problem if t is fixed s W W 0 B R R zero-evasion line A s [1 p]/p 0 p 0 p 1 The feasible set The enforced honesty set A: The zero-evasion point W 0 welfare contour through A Welfare contours B: the optimum φ(p 0 ) = ty R W 0 satisfies s = [1 p]/p Welfare increases South-West 13
14 The problem if p is fixed s 1 p p W A R R Draw feasible set 0 1 The enforced honesty set A welfare contour Welfare contours Optimum t 14
15 The problem if p,s,t all variable s 0 objective Enforced honesty set R = constant constraint A Optimisation problem again Transform the problem Revenue increases to North-East Tax authority moves this way? 1 p 15
16 Overview... A utilitarian approach Policy Design Background Objectives and constraints Optimal policy C&B Optimal policy Strategic 16
17 Optimal degree of enforcement? Take a standard welfare-economics approach choose the optimal p, given fixed s, t Basic utilitarian model homogeneous population simple revenue target a type of cost-benefit approach to enforcement Individual (slightly extended) income: y = wh consumption: c = [1 t]y + rte leisure: l = 1 h utility: u(c, l) Government/tax authority enforcement cost per taxpayer: φ(p) revenue requirement: R expected revenue leakage per tax dollar: r =1 p ps budget constraint: twh [1 p ps]t e(τ, w) φ(p) R / n Utilitarian model, homogenous population objective function: v(τ, w) = max Eu(c, l) Lagrangean: v(τ, w) + λ [twh [1 p ps]t e(τ, w) φ(p) R / n ] 17
18 Choosing p for given (s,t) 0 φ p B p p* p MC is marginal audit cost is monotonic increasing MB is marginal audit yields + supply side and risk effects may not be monotonic may go to zero Optimum where MB = MC φ p = [1+s]te r t e/ p w 0 l/ p e(τ, w) + v p /λ 1 Probabilities, costs and benefits Marginal cost of audit Marginal benefit of audit Optimum investigation effort 18
19 Extensions agent interaction Cost-benefit approach is essentially individualistic compute MB for each agent Social interaction models prevent epidemics? shift the equilibrium? manipulate expectations? Iyer et al 2010) raise search costs? Focus on smart use of information recognise that agents may have better market information than tax authority exploit information about all agents behaviour Example: tax compliance by firms use of information: compare simple auditing with relative auditing relationships amongst firms is essential to the impact of policy choice Cournot behaviour: get effect on output as well as tax receipts collusion amongst firms smart auditing less effective (Bayer and Cowell 2009) Examine smart auditing further in a reporting model 19
20 Overview... Strategic approach to audit policy Policy Design Background Objectives and constraints Optimal policy C&B Optimal policy Strategic 20
21 Tax-payer v. Tax-collector game Model ingredients tax rate t, surcharge s, cost of audit ϕ are exogenously determined tax enforcement powers are delegated, like contract farming To find a solution we need to look closely at: the structure of taxpayer population control that can be exercised by tax authority Essence of model is taxpayer heterogeneity differ by income and by attitude to tax-paying authority does not know individual taxpayer attributes and incomes... but does know distribution in the population Take a simple 2x2 version: type income attitude pop proportion poor y 0??? α 0 honest rich y 0 + y always pay α 1 chancers y 0 + y cheat if can α 2 21
22 A mixed-strategy approach Each side expects the other to play probabilistically: tax authority investigates low incomes with probability p taxpayer cheats with probability π Expected net tax receipts T = [α 1 + α 2 [1 π] ] t y + α 2 pπ [[1 + s]t y ϕ ] α 0 pϕ Marginal impact on receipts from increasing p is: α 2 π [[1 + s]t y ϕ ] α 0 ϕ This is positive if π is greater than a threshold value: α 0 ϕ π > π := α 2 [[1+s]t y ϕ ] 22
23 Equilibrium concepts Taxpayers and tax agency each form beliefs about the other s actions Equilibrium where each adopts a consistent set of beliefs What is the optimal tailored audit strategy? Two types of relationship between taxpayer and tax authority: tax authority precommits to a strategy tax authority does not precommit see Reinganum and Wilde (1985, 1986) 23
24 Precommitment: policy If the tax authority were permissive, net receipts would be low: T π=1,p=0 = α 1 t y If authority can commit it ought to audit all low-income reports: p = 0 if report is y 0 + y p = 1 if report is y 0 Tax receipts net of audit costs are T π=0,p=1 = [α 1 + α 2 ] t y α 0 ϕ This amounts to a Punish the poor policy Is this in fact optimal? viability credibility 24
25 Precommitment: optimality? Condition 1 for financial viability is: T π=0,p=1 T π=1,p=0 [α 1 + α 2 ] t y α 0 pϕ α 1 t y α 2 t y α 0 ϕ Condition 2 for financial viability is: net return from investigating a false report must be non-negative [1 + s] t y ϕ 0 Combining the two conditions [1 + s] t y ϕ [1 + s [α 2 /α 0 ]]t y satisfied if audit cost is not too high and there are not too many honest people Credibility: everyone sees that only the genuinely poor people are audited no revenue is ever raised in equilibrium policy may not be credible in a repeated setting 25
26 No commitment: outline Tax authority: believes probability that a chancer will cheat is π perceived probability of catching an evader is θ := α 2 π/[α 0 +α 2 π] expected net tax receipts can be written as: α 0 ϕ const + [ π / π 1] α 0 +α 2 π π is pivotal value of belief Chancers: Solution: believe that probability of audit is p expected utility if cheat is: pu([1 t]y 0 + [1 t st] y) + [1 p]u([1 t]y 0 + y) expected utility if don t cheat is: u([1 t][y 0 + y]) there is a pivotal probability satisfied p which equates these two utilities if u is risk neutral then p = 1 / [1+s] tax authority s best response given belief π defines reaction function p(π) chancers best response given belief p defines reaction function π(p) equilibrium where beliefs consistent where reaction functions intersect 26
27 1 π π No commitment: Solution π(p) (p*,π*) p(π) tax authority reaction taxpayer reaction 0 p* 1 p The strategy space Tax authority s strategy Chancer s strategy Equilibrium always audit if proportion of cheats is believed high always cheat if probability of detection is believed low p = 1 / [1 +s] α 0 ϕ π = α 2 [[1+s]t y ϕ ] 27
28 How the model works Response to tax-enforcement parameters: π / ϕ > 0 p / ϕ = 0 π / t < 0 p / t 0 π / s < 0 p / s < 0 Changing population proportions: π / α 0 > 0 p / α 0 = 0 π / α 2 < 0 p / α 2 = 0 28
29 Assessment Compliance is a central component of public economics Arises naturally from the issues concerning the provision of public goods Analysed using standard microeconomic techniques Incentives issues similar to those of labour supply Important to model the interactions involved in evasion Perceptions of others behaviour may be important. Also interaction between tax-payers and enforcement agencies Crucial issues on policy concern the institutional background What is the nature of the optimisation problem? Is a standard reporting model appropriate? What information should each party be assumed to have? 29
30 References Cowell, F. A. (1989) Honesty is sometimes the best policy, European Economic Review, 33, * Cowell, F. A. (2004) Carrots and Sticks in Enforcement in Aaron, H. J. and Slemrod, J. (ed.) The Crisis in Tax Administration, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Iyengar, R. (2008) I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws, NBER Working Paper, Iyer, G.S., Reckers, P.M.J. and Sanders, D.L. (2010) Increasing Tax Compliance in Washington State: A Field Experiment, National Tax Journal, 63,7-32, Reinganum, J. F. and L. L. Wilde (1985) Income tax compliance in a principalagent framework, Journal of Public Economics, 26, Reinganum, J. F. and L. L. Wilde (1986) Equilibrium verification and reporting policies in a model of tax compliance, International Economic Review, 27, * Slemrod, J. and Yitzhaki, S. (2002) Tax avoidance, evasion and administration, Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 3, pp , North-Holland, Elsevier 30
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