Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can affect b...
Main Authors: | McKenzie, David, Seynabou Sakho, Yaye |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4760 |
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