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Taxes, the tax administrative burden and the entrepreneurial life cycle
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden.
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO). Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Economics, Finance and Statistics. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
2021 (English)In: Small Business Economics, ISSN 0921-898X, E-ISSN 1573-0913, Vol. 56, no 2, p. 681-694Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present a modified version of the entrepreneurial choice model, where it is shown that the expected utility of becoming an entrepreneur is decreasing in both the levels of taxes and the tax administrative burden. We extend previous empirical findings by examining how these variables influence entrepreneurs at different stages in the entrepreneurial life cycle. Our findings imply that the effect of the tax administrative burden varies over the entrepreneurial life cycle from strongly negative to insignificant. The most pronounced negative effects appear in the early stages of entrepreneurship. We conclude that a 10% reduction in the tax administrative burden increases the propensity for new business establishments by 4%. Our findings support the idea that tax simplification is one way to encourage entrepreneurship, without any reduction in tax revenues.

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Springer, 2021. Vol. 56, no 2, p. 681-694
Keywords [en]
Entrepreneurship, Life cycle, Tax administrative burden, Tax complexity
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44616DOI: 10.1007/s11187-019-00195-0ISI: 000629304500009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85066304891Local ID: HOA;;1326423OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-44616DiVA, id: diva2:1326423
Available from: 2019-06-18 Created: 2019-06-18 Last updated: 2021-04-08Bibliographically approved

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