Despite considerable regulation of tax practitioners by both statutory rules and professional ethical standards, when a tax advisor mishandles a client's tax work, whether because of incompetence, a conflict of interest or for some other reason, the client seeking redress must generally resort...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and tax aggressiveness. An model is developed showing that a profit maximization firm is willing to incur additional costs in CSR, such as paying more taxes, as long as they could differentiate their products from...

There was a two-fold purpose in writing this paper. The main purpose was to discover how the populations of Moldova and Romania view tax evasion and whether opinions varied based on demographics. The second purpose, which may be more interesting from a sociological and political perspective, is...

This literature review will summarize research into factors affecting views on tax evasion as well as give a brief overview of what tax evasion is. It addresses tax evasion, tax compliance as well as research on perceptions of tax ethics in different countries as well as the findings of previous...

In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....

Tax evasion is widespread in transition economies. There are two main reasons: the lack of infrastructure to collect taxes and the widespread belief on the part of taxpayers that there is little or no moral duty to pay taxes. This paper reports the results of a survey on the ethics of tax...

The goal of this paper is to explore the perception of Kosovo's citizens of the severity of tax evasion relative to other crimes and abuses. Perception of tax evasion may somewhat clarify the degree of rebelliousness with the tax laws. Using data from a self-administered survey and a personnel...

This article examines whether government control of companies is a factor influencing tax aggressiveness, through a comparative analysis of these firms versus privately controlled companies listed on the BM&FBovespa. The analysis covers the period from 2009 through 2013 and aggressiveness is...

This study helps provide clarity to the prior mixed findings on the association between the transparency of the financial information environment and tax avoidance by studying the effect that transparency has on tax avoidance in a cross-country sample through aggregate - and firm-level tests. By...

I investigate the influence of pretax earnings performance on the relation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance. Prior studies of the relation between CSR and tax avoidance find mixed results. Based on slack resource theory (Penrose 1959), I predict and find that the...