This paper examines at a levy on plastic bags introduced in Ireland in 2002, and a comparable measure phased in by South Africa from 2003. It looks at the approach taken by the Revenue in each case, and isolates key influences on the policy formation process. It assesses the effectiveness of...

This paper investigates the factors that lead to tax aggression among tax preparers in South Africa. While much has been written on the factors influencing taxpayer propensity towards avoidance and evasion, relatively little work has been done to understand the role of the preparers of tax...

Tax evasion represents a serious loss to the exchequer in most developed and developing economies. Various approaches to combat this problem have been put forward, including increasing penalties for non-compliance, boosting revenue powers of search and discovery, the use of amnesties to bring...

To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme...

Value is increasingly found in human subjects and in particular within their minds. This places the individual at the centre of economic life and therefore the inner life of individual merits more attention. A key element of humanity is memory and it drives such phenomena as trust and goodwill,...

Employee stock option schemes have become increasingly prevalent over the past decade or so. This situation may, or may not, change due to recent accounting regulation that demands that stock options be expensed - quite simply because expensing reduces earnings. This must impact on the incentive...

In this theoretical, empirical and occasionally speculative paper we argue that human interaction is the critical source of intangible value in the intellectual age. This argument is supported with some perceptual evidence on the dimensions of intellectual capital (IC) from the Irish ICT sector....