• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link
  • Contributor: Halla, Martin [Author]
  • Published: Linz: Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, 2010
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: C81 ; H26 ; tax evasion ; Tax morale ; Z13 ; tax compliance ; O17 ; A13 ; underground production
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access