Why so many people pay their taxes, although fines and audit probability are low, has become a central question in the tax compliance literature. A homo economicus, with a more refined motivation structure, helps us to shed light on this puzzle. This paper provides empirical evidence for the relevance of conditional cooperation, using survey data from 30 West and East European countries. We fin...

The tax administration is required to audit some or all its taxpayers to check the evasion of tax and ensure compliance. Conducting of audits involves costs to the tax department as well as to the taxpayer. Thus, audit is not a very welcome procedure both for the taxpayers as well as the economy. Tax administration agencies must therefore use their limited resources very judiciously to achieve ...

In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the traditional model: First, reform losers tend to evade more taxes after the reform. Second, a reform ...

The tax compliance literature indicates that many factors, including, economic, social, psychological and demographic, impact upon the compliance behaviour of taxpayers. This research study investigated the relationship if any, that exists between major tax compliance variables and the attitudes and behaviour of both selected Australian individual taxpayers’ and tax evaders’ towards tax evasion...

In this paper, we provide new evidence regarding the pass-through of diesel and gasoline taxes to prices, and how the estimated pass-through depends on a variety of supply conditions including a measure of state residual supply elasticity, refinery and inventory constraints. In addition, we estimate the response of tax incidence to two regulatory changes in fuel markets diesel dye regulations, ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Behavioral heterogeneity Cheating Evolutionary game theory Peer punishment Public goods game Tax morale We focus on the tax evasion dynamics emerging from repeated interaction of three types of taxpayers: cheaters, honest citizens and punishers. By assuming that cultural evolution is driven by material payoffs only, we show that a long overlooked behavioral attit...

The state inspections play an important role in the modern economy. There are two main directions of their activity. The rst one is collection of payments to the state budget. The tax inspections and the customs control the payment's values and check exemptions from payments for di erent economic agents. The agency should prevent tax or customs evasion but not interfere with the agents eligible...