The authors conducted a survey of 502 Turkish and Australian undergraduate and graduate business and economic students to determine their views regarding the ethics of tax evasion. These two groups were selected on the premise that their views represented the perceptions of two very different...

The slippery slope framework explains tax compliance along two main dimensions, trust in authorities and power of authorities, which influence taxpayers' compliance attitudes. Through frequentist and Bayesian analyses, we investigated the framework's assumptions on a sample of 2786...

In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....

This paper analyzes the data on tax evasion that was collected over two different periods for ten transition economies. Comparisons are made between the earlier and later data to determine whether attitudes toward tax evasion have changed over time. The study found that some countries became...

Although much research has been done on tax evasion from the perspectives of economics and public finance, not much has been done from the perspective of ethics. This paper is intended to partially fill that gap in the literature. This paper reviews the literature that has been published on the...

This paper uses data collected from three surveys regarding attitudes on tax evasion to determine whether any trends can be identified. Comparisons are also made by gender, age, religious practice and marital status to determine whether attitudes toward tax evasion differ based on these categories

In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....