Purpose This paper attempts to develop a simple, static model of tax administration that is capable of explaining the widespread collusive petty tax administration corruption observed in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper utilizes a positivist research framework and...

This paper provides an overview of a research project designed to develop a model of a personal income tax (“PIT”) system for Australia that is capable of commanding widespread expert and community support while still delivering the expected revenue flow and tax policy objectives that are...

The principal aim of this paper is to examine the experience of pre-filling in Australia. Section Two provides a background discussion of pre-filling in Australia. Section Three presents a preliminary assessment of the impact of pre-filling and considers a number of proposals that could enhance...

This article suggests that the proposals for a standard deduction for work related expenses and the costs of managing tax affairs of individual taxpayers, due to be introduced from 1 July 2012, are flawed from a number of perspectives. After briefly reviewing international practice and examining...

Despite being consistently stated as an important characteristic of good tax policy, tax simplicity has largely been ignored in actual tax reform. After so many years and attempts, the goal of tax simplification in Australia appears to be as elusive as ever. The central tenets of this paper are...

Tax compliance inevitably requires taxpayers to incur costs, often significant, to fulfill their tax obligations. This paper reports on the tax compliance burden of Australian personal taxpayers in the 2011-12 tax year, using the refined Sandford methodology. The scope of the study is confined...

This paper addresses an identified gap in knowledge about whether, and how, perceptions of corruption may influence personal income taxpayer compliance behaviour. It examines how perceptions of five forms of corruption may impact upon intentional tax underreporting behaviour by adopting a...

Tax non-compliance and perceptions of corruption are key challenges to state-building in developing countries. Using a social psychology approach, we develop a theoretical model in which different forms of perceived corruption can adversely influence the way individual taxpayers behave. We then...

This paper is concerned with the ranking of academic tax journals. The project started as a response to the former federal government's Research Quality Framework (RQF). The RQF has now been replaced by the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative which, in many ways, is not unlike...