TY - BOOK ID - 133422356 TI - Leveraging Anti-money Laundering Measures to Improve Tax Compliance and Help Mobilize Domestic Revenues AU - Mathias, Emmanuel. AU - Wardzynski, Adrian. PY - 2023 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Criminology KW - Taxation KW - Tax Evasion and Avoidance KW - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law KW - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Corporate crime KW - white-collar crime KW - Crime & criminology KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Tax planning and compliance KW - Crime KW - Revenue administration KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Money laundering KW - Crime--Economic aspects KW - Tax administration and procedure KW - Tax evasion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133422356 AB - The paper advocates leveraging anti-money laundering (AML) measures to enhance tax compliance, tackle tax crimes, and, in turn, help mobilize domestic revenues. While AML measures have already been deployed to improve tax compliance, including during the European debt crisis, the benefits that such measures could bring to the integrity of the tax system are yet to be fully realized. In recent years, the relevance of AML measures for tax purposes resurfaced in public discourse in light of numerous data leaks that provided ample evidence of the closely intertwined nature of tax crimes and money laundering. There might now be the right political momentum for greater utilization of AML measures given post-pandemic calls for a more progressive tax system, elevated sovereign debt burdens, a challenging global economic outlook, and widespread cost-of-living crisis. In this context, the IMF has stressed the importance of rebuilding fiscal buffers, as countries with more fiscal room are better placed to weather the economic slowdown and protect households and businesses. ER -