THE BEHAVIOR OF TAXPAYERS AND THE OPTIMAL STRATEGY OF THE TAX AUDIT

Abstract

He article deals with the solution of the problem of tax evasion on the basis of determining the optimal strategy of tax audit in which the fiscal authority, with a limited budget, decides on the redistribution of resources between tax audits and improvement of the information system of reporting and analysis. The results of the simulation show that the investing in the modernization of the information system of tax administration is advisable in cases where the tax authority has limited inancial resources, but only to the extent that marginal costs to improve the quality of signals from taxpayers do not exceed the return on investments in the increase in the number of tax audits.

Keywords

• налоговый аудит
• уклонение от уплаты налогов
• налогоплательщик
• поведение
• tax audit
• tax evasion
• taxpayer
• behavior