Tax Compliance and Spatial Differences in Turkey, 2013-2020

Fırat GÜNDEM

Fiscaoeconomia, 2022, issue 3

Abstract: Tax compliance is a term that refers to the capacity of the government in order to collect taxes without too much effort. Also, tax compliance shows the level of willingness of the citizens and companies to pay their taxes without seeking systemic gaps in the tax system. Tax compliance is especially important for developing countries to find resources to fulfill public expenditures. That's why it is affected by various factors such as age, education, trust for the incumbent, foreign trade, etc. However, the tax compliance of the various spatial units is not the same. This is very important especially when the economic activities of the citizens and companies and the taxes that they are subjected to pay are specified and collected at the local levels. There might be various spatial tendencies in terms of tax compliance and it is very important to know them at the spatial level for the government. In that context, in this study, the factors that have been affected by the spatial units for tax compliance are investigated at the province level. Findings show that tax compliance is affected by demographic variables and penalties. However, penalties impact tax compliance negatively in Turkey. Also, tax compliance is not the same nationwide and there are various spatial regimes based on the ratio between tax collecting and tax assessment.

Keywords: Tax Compliance; Spatial Regimes; Tax Collection; Tax Assessment; Tax Penalties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 H20 I20 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.25295/fsecon.1094397

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