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Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence

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We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure to biased news about government action affects compliance in a repeated taxation game. Subjects treated with positive news are significantly more compliant than the control group. The exposure to negative news, instead, does not prompt any significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the selection and tonality of news as the norm rather than the exception. Overall, our results suggest that biased news act as a constant source of psychological priming and play a vital role in taxpayers' compliance decisions.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12938

Classification: Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household

Subject: tax compliance
media bias
taxation game
laboratory experiment

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Fišar, Miloš
Reggiani, Tommaso G.
Sabatini, Fabio
Špalek, Jiří

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

(where): Bonn

(when): 2020

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215334

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Fišar, Miloš
Reggiani, Tommaso G.
Sabatini, Fabio
Špalek, Jiří
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

2020

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