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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799989603321

Titolo

Developing alternative frameworks for explaining tax compliance / / edited by James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Benno Torgler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97065-7

1-136-97066-5

1-282-62955-7

9786612629556

0-203-85161-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Routledge international studies in money and banking  Developing alternative frameworks for explaining tax compliance

Altri autori (Persone)

AlmJames

Martinez-VazquezJorge

TorglerBenno <1972->

Disciplina

336.2/91

Soggetti

Taxpayer compliance

Tax evasion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays presented at a conference held in Atlanta in Oct. 2007 and sponsored by the International Studies Program of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Part I: Introduction to the volume; 1 Developing alternative frameworks for explaining tax compliance; Part II: A review and critique of the existing literature; 2 Why pay taxes?: A review of tax compliance decisions; Part III: Expanding the standard theory of compliance; 3 Tax compliance: Social norms, culture, and endogeneity; 4 Vertical and horizontal reciprocity in a theory of taxpayer compliance; 5 Tax evasion and the psychological tax contract; Part IV: Empirical evidence on financial incentives

6 A meta-analysis of incentive effects in tax compliance experiments7 Econometric models for multi-stage audit processes: An application to the IRS National Research Program; Part V: Empirical evidence on governance; 8 Tax compliance, tax morale, and governance quality; 9



Tax evasion, corruption, and the social contract in transition; 10 Procedural justice and the regulation of tax compliance behavior: The moderating role of personal norms; Part VI: Case studies; 11 Tax non-compliance among the under-30s: Knowledge, obligation, or skepticism?

12 The economic psychology of value added tax compliance13 Tax evasion, the informal sector, and tax morale in LAC countries; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last several decades, there has been a growing interest in theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on all aspects of tax compliance and tax evasion. The essays in this volume summarize the existing state of knowledge of tax compliance and tax evasion, present new thinking about this issue, and analyze the empirical relevance of these new perspectives. The original essays in this volume represent an attempt to provide a framework on compliance that moves beyond the economics-of-crime perspective, one that provides a more complete understanding of individual (and group) decisio