Rewarding tax compliance: taxpayers' attitudes and beliefs

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

 
 
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Title Rewarding tax compliance: taxpayers' attitudes and beliefs
 
Creator Bornman, Marina Stack, Lilla
 
Subject tax compliance; rewards; cognitive evaluation theory; intrinsic motivation; voluntary tax compliance; taxpayers’ attitudes and beliefs; penalties
Description In a society the tax climate is determined by the interaction between taxpayers and tax authorities. In a ‘service and client’ climate, taxpayers do not expect authorities to automatically suspect them of being tax evaders. Evidence suggests that recognising good tax behaviour with strategies of rewards has a positive effect on voluntary tax compliance. Principles derived from the cognitive evaluation theory predict that when feelings of competence are affirmed and this is accompanied by a sense of autonomy it can enhance the intrinsic motivation for an action. The present research surveyed the attitudes and beliefs of taxpayers involved in small business on being rewarded for tax compliance. Results were corroborated with the principles of the cognitive evaluation theory and it was found that that the principles of the theory are applicable to rewarding tax compliance behaviour.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2015-12-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jef.v8i3.122
 
Source Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Vol 8, No 3 (2015) 2312-2803 1995-7076
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Marina Bornman, Lilla Stack https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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