Kepatuhan di Tengah Kompleksitas Pajak: Apakah Literasi Memiliki Peran?

ABSTRACT Tax regulations have become increasingly complex in recent years. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether the tax complexity can reduce tax compliance. Furthermore, this study also intends to find out whether public literacy can play a role in maintaining compliance despite experiencing complex taxation aspects. This study uses secondary data in the form of complexity scores, tax effort, and literacy scores of various countries around the world. The sample of this study amounted to 52 countries, which were obtained by the purposive sampling method. This research is a quantitative study using moderated regression analysis. This study found that tax complexity is proven to reduce tax compliance. However, literacy cannot weaken these negative effects. The results of this study imply that the government needs to consider the complexity of regulations and procedures for fulfilling tax obligations to increase tax revenues. ABSTRAK Regulasi pajak semakin kompleks pada beberapa tahun terakhir. Oleh sebab itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah kompleksitas pajak dapat mengurangi kepatuhan pajak. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga bermaksud untuk mencari tahu apakah literasi masyarakat dapat berperan untuk mempertahankan kepatuhan meskipun mengalami aspek perpajakan yang kompleks. Studi ini menggunakan data sekunder berupa skor kompleksitas, tax effort, serta skor literasi berbagai negara di dunia. Adapun sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 52 negara, yang diperoleh dengan metode purposive sampling. Penelitian ini adalah studi kuantitatif dengan menggunakan analisis regresi dengan pemoderasi. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa kompleksitas pajak terbukti dapat mengurangi kepatuhan pajak. Namun demikian, literasi tidak dapat memperlemah efek negatif tersebut. Hasil penelitian ini berimplikasi bahwa pemerintah perlu mempertimbangkan kompleksitas regulasi maupun tata cara pemenuhan kewajiban perpajakan untuk dapat meningkatkan pendapatan pajak.

The Effects of Fiscal Effort in Tunisia: An Evidence from the ARDL Bound Testing Approach

The purpose of this paper is to examine the various structural determinants of revenue and tax effort in Tunisia. We used on the empirical study an ARDL model to estimate the dynamic equation of fiscal potential and its structural and non-structural determinants covering the period of 1996–2017 in Tunisia. The empirical results show that before 2010, Tunisia fully exploited its fiscal potential, and the tax effort was above unity. After 2010 this trend was reversed. Despite the increase in the tax burden, Tunisia is below potential. The results showed that Tunisia is facing dramatic difficulties in mobilizing more tax revenue with this same taxpayer base. As a result, it is called upon to orient reform actions towards two aspects: broadening the taxpayer base to guarantee more tax fairness and adopting an awareness and motivation strategy aimed at greater tax compliance. Tunisia should adopt reforms that aim to eliminate the flat-rate regime and put in place advantages and procedures to facilitate and motivate the transition from informal to formal. Finally, it would be wise to further regulate cash payments and ensure the application of the legal rules governing the matter. In order to optimize the allocation of budgetary resources and ease the pressure on public finances, it would be appropriate, even with a delay in relation to the legislation to fight tax evasion and fraud by improving the human and material resources made available to the tax administration and consolidating its digitalization efforts.

MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF TAX REVENUE AND TAX EFFORT IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

This paper analyzes macroeconomic indicators that determine tax revenues in six Southeast Asian countries during 2008 – 2019. The estimation results are then used to predict the value of taxable capacity to construct the deal of tax effort. Using the FE model equipped with the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, this study finds positive and significant effects of per capita income, manufacturing, and trade openness on the actual tax-to-GDP ratio and tax effort. In contrast, inflation is considered a different determinant because of its insignificant effect on the two measures of tax performance. In addition, the authors also classify countries into three other groups based on the actual level of tax revenue and the effort put into collecting taxes. The benchmarks used to rank countries are all sample countries’ median substantial tax revenue and the tax effort index 1. Regardless of the classification, several policy implications are offered to increase tax collection productivity by focusing on the revenue bases used in the estimation model. Keywords: Tax Revenue, Tax Capacity, Tax Effort, Southeast Asia, Panel DataJEL: H2, O1, O2

Pengaruh Aspek-Aspek Kemakmuran Negara terhadap Kepatuhan Pajak

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh aspek-aspek kemakmuran negara terhadap kepatuhan pajak. Aspek kemakmuran tersebut meliputi masyarakat inklusif, masyarakat terberdayakan, dan perekonomian terbuka. Penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder berupa laporan indeks kemakmuran negara dari The Legatum Institute Foundation dan hasil penelitian tingkat upaya pajak (tax effort). Populasi dalam penelitian ini merupakan negara-negara di seluruh dunia dan berdasarkan purposive sampling terdapat 94 negara yang dijadikan sampel. Pengujian hipotesis penelitian ini menggunakan analisis regresi berganda, dan sebelumnya data telah diuji terlebih dahulu menggunakan uji asumsi klasik. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa masyarakat inklusif dan masyarakat terberdayakan berpengaruh positif terhadap kepatuhan pajak, sedangkan variabel perekonomian terbuka berpengaruh negatif terhadap kepatuhan pajak. Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat menjadi bahan pertimbangan pemerintah dalam pembuatan kebijakan pajak sebagai upaya untuk mewujudkan kepatuhan pajak, melalui kebijakan yang mendorong inklusifitas dan pemberdayaan masyarakat.

Tax Effort of the Indian States from 2001–2002 to 2016–2017: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

This article estimates the tax capacity and tax effort of 17 major states of India from 2001–2002 to 2016–2017 using the stochastic frontier panel data model. It is found that per capita income, agriculture activity, infrastructure, labour force and bank credit are the significant determinants of tax capacity, while social sector spending and central transfer to states are significant in determining tax effort. The Goods and Services Tax has reduced the states’ tax powers. Therefore, the states are highly dependent on their limited legislative taxes for revenue mobilization. However, there is little scope for the subnational governments to increase tax revenue as all states have achieved at least 90% of their tax potential.

Taxable capacity and effort of value-added tax in Kenya

Domestic tax revenue mobilisation has received great focus among developing countries in order to achieve the development objectives with less reliance on foreign aid. The effort to mobilise revenue in developing countries has been undermined by some challenges such as high levels of non-compliance, low taxable capacity and effort averaging 10 to 20 per cent compared to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, which collect 30 to 40 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP). To achieve Kenya’s Vision 2030 development objectives, the tax administration is expected to collect over 20.7 per cent of GDP and ensure revenue growth of 10 per cent per annum (Republic of Kenya, 2007). This called for establishing how far the country is from reaching its maximum tax potential and the effect of various factors that determine the taxable capacity of the country. Emphasis was placed on value-added tax (VAT) due to its high revenueraising potential. Using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation technique and maximum likelihood for stochastic frontier approach, the study estimated the taxable capacity and effort of value-added tax (VAT). The results indicated that capital investment, manufacturing and private credit as a per cent of GDP impacted positively on taxable capacity while inflation, exports and agriculture negatively affected taxable capacity. The tax effort estimation results indicated that the average tax effort between 2011 and 2015 was 0.5, thus classifying the country under low collection, high effort category. Therefore, broadening the tax base through increased investments, manufacturing and improving on the efficiency of tax administration is fundamental in enhancing revenue mobilisation.