Tax Administration : IRS' Efforts to Improve Corporate Compliance
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13:
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Why People Pay Taxes
Author: Joel Slemrod
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780472103386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperts discuss strategies for curtailing tax evasion
Small Business Tax Compliance
Author: Sheri Patton
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781634845663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA challenge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) faces is balancing efforts to minimize taxpayer burden with efforts to ensure compliance with the tax code. Small businesses are a vital source of economic growth in the United States. Reducing their costs for complying with the tax code may free up resources to expand, hire new employees, and contribute to the growth of the U.S. economy. This book describes characteristics of the small business population; describes how characteristics of a small business affect compliance burden; describes how IRS integrates small business compliance burden considerations in decision-making; and assesses IRS's plan for evaluating its payment card pilot.
What Does Voluntary Tax Compliance Mean?
Author: Jack Manhire
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the IRS's principal goals is to maximize voluntary compliance. Yet, there is often a great deal of confusion and consternation when taxpayers discover that the IRS refers to the annual filing and payment ritual as “voluntary;” especially since most taxpayers do not believe they have a choice when it comes to filing and paying their taxes. What does voluntary compliance mean? Does it mean taxpayers can volunteer to file returns and pay taxes, much as one might volunteer to make a charitable donation? Does it mean taxpayers don't have to comply with the tax laws if they don't feel like it? How can it be a federal crime to not file or pay taxes if compliance is voluntary? This essay offers a government perspective as to why the IRS uses this sometimes perplexing term. After investigating (and dismissing) a possible literal defense, the essay surveys the IRS's history to see why voluntary compliance is such a critical part of the U.S. tax system. The essay then recommends changing the term from voluntary to cooperative compliance to retain the government's meaning while lessening taxpayer confusion.
Building Tax Culture, Compliance and Citizenship A Global Source Book on Taxpayer Education, Second Edition
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-11-24
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9264724788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWidespread voluntary tax compliance plays a significant role in countries’ efforts to raise the revenues necessary to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. As part of this process, governments are increasingly reaching out to taxpayers – current and future – to teach, communicate and assist them in order to foster a “culture of compliance” based on rights and responsibilities, in which citizens see paying taxes as an integral aspect of their relationship with their government.
Small Businesses
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781977949998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA challenge IRS faces is balancing efforts to minimize taxpayer burden with efforts to ensure compliance with the tax code. Small businesses are a vital source of economic growth in the United States. Reducing their costs for complying with the tax code may free up resources to expand, hire new employees, and contribute to the growth of the U.S. economy. GAO was asked to examine small business tax compliance burden and IRS's payment card pilot that addresses taxpayer non-compliance. This report: (1) describes characteristics of the small business population (2) describes how characteristics of a small business affect compliance burden; (3) describes how IRS integrates small business compliance burden considerations in decision-making; and (4) assesses IRS's plan for evaluating its payment card pilot. To answer these objectives, GAO analyzed Treasury and IRS data, research, and other documentation and interviewed agency officials. GAO used its guidance on program design evaluation to assess IRS's payment card pilot evaluation plan.
Tax Administration 2021 Comparative Information on OECD and other Advanced and Emerging Economies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9264424083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report is the ninth edition of the OECD's Tax Administration Series. It provides internationally comparative data on aspects of tax systems and their administration in 59 advanced and emerging economies.
Law and Social Norms
Author: Eric Posner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780674042308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and nonlegal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and complex task, and that current understanding of social norms is inadequate for guiding judges and lawmakers. What is needed, and what this book offers, is a model of the relationship between law and social norms. The model shows that people's concern with establishing cooperative relationships leads them to engage in certain kinds of imitative behavior. The resulting behavioral patterns are called social norms. Posner applies the model to several areas of law that involve the regulation of social norms, including laws governing gift-giving and nonprofit organizations; family law; criminal law; laws governing speech, voting, and discrimination; and contract law. Among the engaging questions posed are: Would the legalization of gay marriage harm traditional married couples? Is it beneficial to shame criminals? Why should the law reward those who make charitable contributions? Would people vote more if non-voters were penalized? The author approaches these questions using the tools of game theory, but his arguments are simply stated and make no technical demands on the reader.
Tax Morale What Drives People and Businesses to Pay Tax?
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9264755020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlocking what drives tax morale – the intrinsic willingness to pay tax – can greatly assist governments in the design of tax policies and their administration, particularly in developing countries where compliance rates are low. This report builds on previous OECD research to identify some of the key socio-economic and institutional drivers of tax morale across developing countries, and seeks to test for evidence of the social contract by examining the impact of public services on tax morale. It also uses new data on tax certainty as an entry point to explore tax morale in businesses, where existing research is very limited. Finally, the report identifies a range of factors related to the tax system that may affect business decision making, how they vary across regions, and suggests some areas for future research. Overall, the report provides a range of suggestions for further work, and how tax morale considerations can be integrated into holistic tax compliance strategies.
