The tax morale of exhausted taxpayers. The case of Greece

Konstantinos Fotiadis () and Prodromos Chatzoglou
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Konstantinos Fotiadis: Democritus University of Thrace

Constitutional Political Economy, 2022, vol. 33, issue 3, No 4, 354-377

Abstract: Abstract Every modern and organized country is making progress when its citizens pay their taxes regardless of whether they will be audited or not by the tax authorities. This research attempts to understand the impact of various tax morale related factors on the taxpaying behavior of the exhausted, due to the 10 years long financial crisis, Greek citizens. A new conceptual model is proposed and empirically tested using data from 1.014 Greek citizens from 50 regions of Greece. The results suggest that tax conscience exerts the highest positive and direct influence on tax morale. Furthermore, the crucial role of trust in reciprocity, trust in democracy and trust in public services, which directly affect tax morale, is also confirmed. In addition, it is found that women have higher tax morale than men, while the importance of perceived (level of) tax justice is highlighted, since it indirectly influences tax morale through its strong direct effect on a large number of trust in the quality of governance related factors.

Keywords: Tax morale; Tax conscience; Tax evasion; Quality of governance; Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 K4 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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