Informal Taxation

Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public fi nance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications of this "informal taxation." Informal taxation is wide- spread,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olken, Benjamin A., Singhal, Monica
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61741
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631