Cullis, John; Jones, Philip; Soliman, Amal - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 4, pp. 418-423
This paper sets out to consider individuals’ motivations to evade taxation. Experimental results indicate that individuals do not simply maximize pecuniary welfare. Their behaviour is consistent with the presence of a ‘spite effect’ when their perceptions are that enforcement variables are...