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Catching tax dodgers with data

April 12, 2017
Technology can help governments detect firms misreporting revenue, but is data enough to crack down on tax evaders?
AEA in the news

How Filing Taxes Benefits Poor People

April 10, 2017
The Boston Globe cited a forthcoming paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy about how poor people can benefit from filing tax returns.
AEA in the news

The historic failure of the soda tax

April 10, 2017
The Washington Post cited a paper published 98 years ago in The American Economic Review about the Revenue Act of 1918.