This paper gives a survey of the experimental literature on the perception (bias) ofindividuals with respect to their own tax burden and its effect on economicdecisions. Six strands of literature are discussed: (1) perception of marginal taxrates, (2) influence of tax complexity on tax...

This paper gives a survey of the experimental literature on the perception (bias) of individuals with respect to their own tax burden and its effect on economic decisions. Six strands of literature are discussed: (1) perception of marginal tax rates, (2) influence of tax complexity on tax...

This paper gives a survey of the experimental literature on the perception (bias) of individuals with respect to their own tax burden and its effect on economic decisions. Six strands of literature are discussed: (1) perception of marginal tax rates, (2) influence of tax complexity on tax...

This paper gives a survey of the experimental literature on the perception (bias) of individuals with respect to their own tax burden and its effect on economic decisions. Six strands of literature are discussed: (1) perception of marginal tax rates, (2) influence of tax complexity on tax...

In this paper we apply conjoint analysis to study the influence of changes in thetax rate and the tax base on the perceived tax burden. Our results show that themajority of individuals do not make rational tax decisions based on the actual taxburden, but rather use simple decision heuristics....

We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjectsand a real tax, which is levied on the subjects’ income from working in our real effort task. Inour first three treatments, the net wage is constant but gross wages are subject to differentconstant marginal...