What are the compliance and administration costs of present taxes?
The costs of tax adminstration and compliance sometimes comes up. This report from the Mirlees Review (table 12.2, page 1128 ) gives figures http://www.ifs.org.uk/mirrlees…
PAYE Income tax has an administration cost of 0.7% of revenue and a compliance cost of 1.3% of revenue. Non-compliance adds a further loss of 1.4%. Self-assessed income tax has an administrative cost of 4.5% of yield and a non compliance cost of 14.6%.