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Strategic tax collection and fiscal decentralization: The case of Russia

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In a centralized federation, where tax rates and taxation rules are set by the federal government, manipulating the thoroughness of tax auditing and the effectiveness of tax collection could be attractive for regional authorities because of a variety of reasons. These range from tax competition to principal-agent problems, state capture and benefits of fiscal equalization. In this paper we discuss strategic tax auditing and collection from the perspective of fiscal federalism and test for strategic tax collection empirically using data of the Russian Federation. Russia’s regional authorities in the 1990s have always been suspect of tax auditing manipulations in their favor. However, in the 2000s increasing bargaining power of the centre seems to induce tax collection bodies in the regions to manipulate tax auditing in favor of the federal centre. Our findings confirm the existence of strategic tax collection for the Yeltsin period after exclusion of outliers; the results for the Putin period are however rather ambiguous.

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LIBMAN, Alexander, FELD, Lars p.. Strategic tax collection and fiscal decentralization: The case of Russia. _IEB Working Paper 2009/11_. [consulta: 24 de gener de 2026]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/116967]

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