The Nexus of Tax Education and Compliance Among Small Business Enterprises
The Nexus of Tax Education and Compliance Among Small Business Enterprises

Author: Cosmas Mwanza

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 3346087638

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Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, , course: Tax compliance, language: English, abstract: The study set out to investigate the influence of tax education on tax compliance. It unearthed a lacuna between tax education and tax compliance which indicated an interplay between the theories of economic deterrent, reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior. Tax non-compliance was attributed to unfairness, dishonesty by colleagues submitting incorrect tax returns, and the complexity of the tax system and tax forms. The issue of tax compliance from SMEs in developing countries has remained a blighting problem for a long time. Despite tax education being diagnosed as the panacea for improving tax compliance from small business owners, the situation has not changed. A divide regarding the issue of tax education as influencing the collection of tax from SMEs still exists among researchers. Some scholars indicate a positive effect of tax education on compliance and others view tax education as a recipe for propagating tax evasion. However, for developmental projects to improve the lives of the citizenry, educating tax-payers aims to improve revenue collection from this category of business people. This study employed an exploratory concurrent mixed research approach on 98 SMEs operating within the Ojtiwarongo district.

Shortchanged
Shortchanged

Author: Caroline Bruckner

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13:

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The last time Congress enacted substantial tax reform -- in 1986 -- only 8.2% of American households owned personal computers. Today, more than 87% of American adults own a mobile phone and on-demand platforms like Uber, Etsy, Lyft, Airbnb, HomeAway, Amazon, and TaskRabbit have become household names by connecting businesses and consumers. Although millions of Americans are engaging in the on-demand platform economy every day as sellers and service providers, the tax compliance challenges this new frontier presents have gone relatively unnoticed. At the same time, these challenges will grow with this fastest growing segment of the labor economy -- creating unnecessary and ongoing burdens for the small business operators who power the on-demand economy.This report, in keeping with the mission of the Kogod Tax Policy Center to conduct non-partisan research on tax issues specific to small businesses and entrepreneurs, identifies the tax compliance challenges the on-demand economy presents for its small business operators. Having spent more than a year investigating this growing problem, we report that:More than 2.5 million U.S. taxpayers are participating in the on-demand platform economy as small business owners every year, and that number is set to more than double in the next few years.At best, these small business owners are shortchanged when filing their taxes; at worst, they fail to file altogether. In addition, these taxpayers face potential audit and penalty exposure for failure to comply with filing rules that are triggered by relatively low amounts of earned income and inconsistent reporting rule adoption.The current tax administration system isn't working for a significant percentage of these small business taxpayers or Treasury or IRS. The existing tax rules effectively create a $19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers (the difference between the income thresholds triggering Forms 1099-K and 1099-MISC reporting), resulting in widespread confusion among taxpayers.The current state of play is one of unnecessary burden, potential audit and penalty exposure for on-demand platform economy players. We can do better.

Determinants of Tax Compliance in Small and Medium Enterprises
Determinants of Tax Compliance in Small and Medium Enterprises

Author: Nelson Maseko

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9783659129216

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Tax compliance is currently a topical issue, especially in developing countries, as governments seek ways to improve efficiency in tax revenue collection to finance their budgets. SMEs are the majority business taxpayers in most developing countries and thus their compliance levels directly impact on the governments' tax revenue collection. This study investigated the determinants of tax compliance in SMEs, focusing on how tax knowledge and compliance costs affect tax compliance behaviour of SMEs in Zimbabwe. The main objectives of the study were to investigate how business conditions of SMEs, perceptions of SME operators, levels of tax knowledge and compliance costs can affect SMEs' tax compliance behaviour. The results indicated that SMEs face unique business conditions which cause them to bear high tax compliance burdens. The perceptions of SME operators about tax fairness and government spending greatly affect their tax compliance decisions. The study found tax knowledge to have no correlation with tax registration compliance but weak negative correlations with filing compliance. Compliance costs were found to have negative correlations with tax compliance.