Working paper
Behavioural insights of tax compliance: an overview of recent conceptual and empirical approaches
Publisher
Taxation
Small business
Business enterprises
Behavioural economics
Tax evasion
Behavioural insights
Regulator strategy
Australia
Description
Many tax policies in Australia and comparable countries are based on a completely rational individual decision maker. However, recent evidence in the fields often referred to as behavioural insights (combining behavioural economics and psychology) have shown that people are neither completely rational not completely irrational. Rather, they exhibit predictable biases that reduce the probability of achieving their own stated aims. In this paper, we summarise the evidence on behavioural insights related to tax compliance, with a particular focus on the more limited set of research on the decision making of small-medium enterprises.
Publication Details
Copyright:
Lilia Arcos Holzinger and Nicholas Biddle 2016
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
19 Oct 2016
