Compulsory voting and tax revenues

Mutascu, Mihai (2011): Compulsory voting and tax revenues.

Abstract

Using a panel-model approach, this paper investigates the validity of the relationship between level of tax revenues and type of voting. The data-set covers the period 2000-2010, and includes 135 countries. The main finding points out that the assumed function is linear and the compulsory vote tends to increase the tax revenues collected by public authority. The analysis in this paper covers the “gap” in the literature in this field.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Tax revenues, Compulsory voting, Voluntary voting, Effects, Tax policy
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D70 - General; H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H20 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models

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