<p>TDGM mechanism-guided simulation architecture.</p>

In a controlled cross-sectional comparison, raw CTGAN failed both row-level accounting identities, whereas deterministic projection restored 100% validity but worsened dependence fidelity. Under the revised classifier specification, a one-hidden-layer neural network with conventional L2 regularization achieved mean ROC-AUC 0.9942 and PR-AUC 0.9710; XGBoost achieved 0.9714 and 0.8975, respectively. Removing the income-gap ratio changed XGBoost ROC-AUC only from 0.9714 to 0.9702, while restricting the model to raw Level 1 variables reduced it to 0.8941.

At 1% prevalence, XGBoost ROC-AUC remained 0.9720 but PR-AUC fell to 0.6703, showing why prevalence-sensitive metrics are required. Together, the three contributions are a constraint-by-construction simulator, a reusable audit protocol for mechanism-guided generators, and explicit measurement of the accounting-repair/statistical-fidelity trade-off. Because selected flows are changed after stock generation, derived ratios can carry design-induced information.

These are internal properties of a synthetic data-generating process, not estimates of real tax-evasion behavior or deployable audit performance.</p></div>