Arbeitspapier

Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link

Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established yet. Exploiting exogenous variation in tax morale - given by the inherited part of tax morale of American-born from their ancestors country of origin - our instrumental variable analysis provides first evidence on a causal effect of tax morale on the size of the underground production.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1006

Classification
Wirtschaft
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Subject
Tax morale
tax evasion
tax compliance
underground production
Steuermoral
Steuerflucht
Schattenwirtschaft
USA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Halla, Martin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
(where)
Linz
(when)
2010

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Halla, Martin
  • Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2010

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