Detecting envelope wages with e-billing information

Andrea Lopez-Luzuriaga; Monica Calijuri; Carola Pessino; Simeon Schächtele; Ubaldo Gonzalez; Carla Chamorro

doi:10.1007/s10797-023-09811-y

Detecting envelope wages with e-billing information

Andrea Lopez-Luzuriaga, Monica Calijuri, Carola Pessino, Simeon Schächtele, Ubaldo Gonzalez, Carla Chamorro

Faculty of Economics

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We use information from the electronic billing system to estimate the underreporting of income of private sector employees. We follow an expenditure-based methodology using the consumption of public and private sector employees for similar levels of reported income. We find that private sector employees underreport between 7 and 9% of their income in Ecuador. The size of the underreporting gap is negatively correlated with the number of employees at the firm, consistent with different risks and administrative costs of ‘envelope wages’ in small versus large firms.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	International Tax and Public Finance
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09811-y
State	Accepted/In press - 2023

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