Abstract
Indirect taxation is a significant source of livelihood for any nation. Tax evasion inhibits the economic growth of a nation. It creates a substantial loss of much needed public revenue. We design a method to single out taxpayers who evade indirect tax by dodging their tax returns. Towards this, we derive six correlation parameters (features), three ratio parameters from tax return statements submitted by taxpayers, and another parameter based on the business interactions among taxpayers using the TrustRank algorithm. Then we perform spectral clustering on taxpayers using these ten parameters (features). We identify taxpayers located at the boundary of each cluster by using kernel density estimation, which are further investigated to single out tax evaders. We applied our method on the iron and steel taxpayer’s data set provided by the Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Telangana, India.
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We express our sincere gratitude to the Telangana state Government, India, for sharing the commercial tax data set, which is used in this work. This work has been supported by Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics and IT, Media Lab Asia, grant number EE/2015-16/023/MLB/MZAK/0176.
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Mehta, P., Mathews, J., Bisht, D., Suryamukhi, K., Kumar, S., Babu, C.S. (2020). Detecting Tax Evaders Using TrustRank and Spectral Clustering. In: Abramowicz, W., Klein, G. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53337-3_13
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