What explains Northern vs. Southern Italy’s tax compliance gap?
There is a widely document North South gap in tax payment in Italy such that people in the North pay a greater proportion of their tax commitments than those in the South. Despite extensive work and a wide range of potential explanations, the precise reasons why this gap remains is still not understood. Here I simultaneously study three potential explanations: institutional, individual, and social, and put them against each other to see which accounts best for the observed gap. Uniquely, I do this for a nationally representative sample of Italians (N≈1200) using a combined survey and vignette experiment allowing me to study both associations and causal associations.
Date:
26 January 2021, 14:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2021)
Venue:
Talk will be held via Zoom
Speaker:
Gian Luca Pasin (University of Milan)
Organising department:
Nuffield College
Organiser:
Noah Bacine (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
noah.bacine@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Raymond Duch (University of Oxford)
Part of:
CESS Colloquium Series
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/gian-luca-pasin-university-of-milan/
Booking email:
noah.bacine@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
n/a
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Noah Bacine
