scholarly journals The Quality Effect of Auditing on Tax Compliance: Evidence from Tunisian Context

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Lynda Soltani

Taxation is the subject of complex and evolving regulations. it has become one of the major concerns of any business to better manage its finance, the responsible for corporate governance give an importance to the fiscal in the strategy and management of the company. In recent years, the importance of taxation in the financial and accounting environment is motivated to study the impact of control and transparency of infomation affected by audit quality. We study a sample of 19 companies between 2013 and 2017, the result shows that audit quality improves tax compliance in the Tunisian context while measuring tax evasion by the difference between the statutory tax rate and the effective tax rate. This study finds that tax evasion in Tunisian firms may have decreased with better audit quality.

2022 ◽  
pp. 228-242
Author(s):  
Larissa Batrancea

The topic of tax behavior always stirs attention among scholars, professionals, national and international authorities, organizations, and citizens alike since it is a complex matter. There are four types of tax behavior acknowledged in the literature, namely voluntary tax compliance, enforced tax compliance, tax avoidance, tax evasion. The complexity of tax behavior stems from the fact that there are a manifold of factors influencing it, from economic to psychological ones. The chapter surveys relevant sources on tax behavior in the quest for eliciting the impact of ethnic diversity on tax compliance. At the same time, the difference between countries are also addressed.


Author(s):  
Muhamad Taufan Setiawan

The tax compliance problem is an imminent issue in a self-assessment taxation system in Indonesia. Tax audit is an important tool used by the tax authority to address the problem. Several studies showed that tax inspection might change the behavior of the taxpayers. Therefore, it is interesting to see how tax inspection will affect taxpayers' behavior related to their subjective measure of firms' performance. This research uses the difference-in-difference approach combine with the entropy balancing method to estimate the causal impact of tax inspection on firms’ performance. The findings showed that the inspected firms showed an increase in their perception of capital utilization which can be explained using tax evasion model or managerial benefits concept.


Author(s):  
Lynda Soltani

This study examines how the reduction of statutory tax rate affects corporate transparency. The financial and accounting environment is motivated to study the impact of control and transparency of information. We study a sample of 19 companies between 2013 and 2017, the result shows that the deductions are related to tax incentives especially investment incentives in the Tunisian context, which is influenced by a good information quality.This study shows that the manipulation of the results in Tunisian companies may have decreased with a reduction of the statutory tax rate.


Author(s):  
Ahmad Farhan Alshira'h ◽  
Hijattulah Abdul-Jabbar

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of tax audit, tax rate and tax penalty on sales tax compliance and examine the moderating effect of patriotism on the associations between tax audit, tax rate and tax penalty with sales tax compliance among Jordanian manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach In this study, 660 questionnaires were distributed by using systematic random sampling to manufacturing SMEs in Jordan, after which a total of 385 useable questionnaires were deemed suitable for analysis. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to validate the measurement model and structural model and the predictive relevance of the study’s model. Findings The findings showed that tax audit and tax penalty were positively associated with the level of sales tax compliance, whereas tax rate was insignificantly associated with sales tax compliance. They also demonstrated the moderating significant effect of patriotism on the relationship between tax penalty, tax audit and tax rate with sales tax compliance. Research limitations/implications Tax authorities and policymakers in developing majority societies in developing countries and in other Arab countries, especially in Jordan may use the results to focus their interest on the formulation of policies founded on the outcomes of the study to strengthen eligible SMEs to comply to further boost their sales collections. Originality/value This study extends the deterrence theory in the context of sales tax compliance by proposing the moderating effect of patriotism in the deterrence theory on sales tax compliance among SMEs. Moreover, the suitability for the use of PLS-SEM as a statistical tool in investigating the extended deterrence theory with patriotism as a moderating variable as well as its implications for theory and practice was also discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-145
Author(s):  
M. Krajňák ◽  

Legislation governing personal income taxation is often subject to changes. A significant personal income tax reform was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2021. The reform implements a progressive tax rate, changes the way the tax base is determined, and increases the tax relief for the taxpayer. The aim of the article is to evaluate the impact of the personal income tax reform on the effective tax rate and tax progressivity. To that end, methods of regression analysis have been used. The source of information for analysis was the data published by the Czech Statistical Office. It was found that in 2021, in comparison with 2020, the tax burden represented in this study by the effective tax rate, in all cases became lower, approximately by 5%. The main reason for this decline is the adjustment of the method of construction of the tax base, which, for the first time in the history of the Income Tax Act, is gross wages. Until the end of 2020, the tax base was a super-gross wage, or the gross wage increased by social security contribution borne by the employer at his costs. The second factor that reduces the tax burden is a CZK 3,000 increase in the deduction per taxpayer per year. This fact increases the degree of tax progressivity, as confirmed by the results of the progressivity analysis and the regression analysis. The changes that have taken place in the personal income tax this year have a positive impact on the taxpayer, but from the point of view of the state, this reform has reduced the state budget revenues.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mazhar Waseem

Using a series of Pakistani tax reforms and administrative records, I document that taxable income responses induced by to-zero tax cuts are orders of magnitude larger than ones induced by similar-sized other cuts. This finding is remarkably robust to alternative specifications and holds for both the self-employed and wage earners. I explore salience, selective enforcement, and discontinuous evasion costs as explanations of the observed behavior. I find that the data favor the last explanation. The difference between the two sets of responses is primarily driven by a large, discrete tax evasion response, which is included in the former but not in the latter behavior. I estimate the difference as a lower bound on tax evasion, showing that at least 70% of the income of low- and middle-income self-employed and 1% of low-income wage earners goes unreported.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Gregorius Fx Erick Tofani Riberu

The research aims to determine the impact of foreign investor’s interests on tax avoidance in Consumer Goods- Manufacturing Companies, in particular the food and beverage sector, listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during the periods from 2011 to 2016. The interests of foreign investors are measured by two variable which are the percentage of ownership by foreign investors and the percentage of foreign directors and commisoners on the board directors. The methodology used in this research is sampling method, tested by multiple linear regression. Tax avoidance is measured by two approaches, i.e. Effective Tax Rate and Book Tax Different. This research concludes that the percentage of ownership by foreign investors and the percentage of foreign directors and commisoners on board directors show no significant effect to the corporate tax avoidance. Tujuan penulisan makalah ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh proporsi kepemilikan saham asing dan proporsi direktur dan komisaris asing terhadap penghindaran pajak di perusahaan manufaktur sektor industri barang konsumsi sub sektor makanan dan minuman yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia selama peiode tahun 2011 sampai dengan 2016. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan metode purposive sampling, diuji dengan metode regresi linier berganda. Pengujian dilakukan dengan dua pendekatan yaitu Effective Tax Rate dan Book Tax Different. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa dengan pendekatan ETR, proporsi kepemilikan saham asing tidak berpengaruh positif atas penghindaran pajak, namun proporsi direktur dan komisaris asing berpengaruh positif terhadap penghindaran pajak meskipun tidak signifikan. Sedangkan dengan pendekatan BTD proporsi kepemilikan saham asing bepengaruh positif terhadap penghindaran pajak meskipun tidak signifikan, dan proporsi direktur dan komisaris asing tidak berpengaruh positif terhadap penghindaran pajak. 


Author(s):  
Diana Alexandra TOADER ◽  
Georgeta VINTILĂ ◽  
Ștefan Cristian GHERGHINA

This paper explores the microeconomic and macroeconomic drivers of financial structure, through a sample of 30 technology companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, over the period 2005-2018. The financial structure was assessed via long-term debt rate, short-term debt rate and total debt rate, whereas the size of the company, tangibility of assets, growth opportunity, effective tax rate and financial return were selected as microeconomic factors, alongside macroeconomic indicators concerning interest rate, inflation rate and gross domestic product per capita.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Wardinto P ◽  
Gunadi .

This study aims to examine the factors that can affect tax compliance at Tanah Abang Market traders, which are the tax rate, perceived opportunity to evade, legal certainty, and group influence. This study uses a quantitative method with a positivism approach which examines social phenomena and captures the perceptions of MSEs actors on the determinants of tax compliance. The sample in this study were 154 MSEs respondents in Tanah Abang Market that were scope into Central Jakarta Regional Tax Office, both private individuals and corporate taxpayers. The results of the study revealed that the tax rate, perceived opportunity to evade, legal certainty, and group influence have a positive effect on tax compliance at Tanah Abang Market traders, but not significant only in the tax rate variable. This is very useful for the DGT authority and the Fiscal Policy Agency as policymakers that the reduction in tax rates does not affect the compliance behavior of MSEs traders and increase monitoring of compliance with MSEs taxpayers through derivative regulations on the implementation of supervision of MSEs taxpayers. 


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