Determinants of internal ta compliance costs: Evidence from South Africa

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

 
 
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Title Determinants of internal ta compliance costs: Evidence from South Africa
 
Creator Smulders, Sharon Stiglingh, Madeleine Franzsen, Riel Fletcher, Lizelle
 
Subject Internal tax compliance costs; regression analysis; small business; tax compliance burden; tax compliance costs
Description Being tax compliant generates costs and these costs affect small business tax compliance behaviour and contribution. This study uses multiple regression analyses to investigate the key drivers of small business’s internal tax compliance costs (hours spent internally on tax compliance activities). This will assist Revenue Services in understanding what factors (determinants) could increase a small business’s internal tax compliance costs and might assist in managing tax compliance behaviour and contribution. The results expose the significant determinants per tax type, enabling a comparison to be made across the different tax types. Overall, turnover is the variable that had the most significant influence on internal tax compliance costs (time) (as opposed to the number of employees, which had a significant effect only on the internal time spent on employees’ tax). The analysis confirmed that there is a higher proportional burden for smaller businesses in respect of internal income tax and employees’ compliance activities.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2016-12-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jef.v9i3.67
 
Source Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Vol 9, No 3 (2016); 714-729 2312-2803 1995-7076
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Sharon Smulders, Madeleine Stiglingh, Riel Franzsen, Lizelle Fletcher https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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