Since the implementation of self assessment in Malaysia almost a decade ago, taxpayers' compliance behaviour has attracted considerable attention. Tax compliance research in Malaysia has predominantly been in the context of income tax and personal taxpayers, and has been conducted using survey...

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...

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 article explores the compliance burden imposed by the value added tax (VAT), which has traditionally been recognised as one of the more onerous taxes so far as compliance by business taxpayers is concerned. It compares the UK's VAT compliance burden with that experienced elsewhere in the...

This article considers the tax compliance costs incurred by the large corporate sector. Using a survey of large and very large businesses and international groups in Australia, and drawing on the findings of other studies, the authors compare and contrast the current burden with the burden...

This article reports the results of an online survey of Australian tax practitioners conducted in May 2014. The purpose of the survey was to gain further insight into how tax changes impact on the role of tax practitioners in assisting their clients to comply with tax obligations (including tax...

The structure of this general chapter follows the structure of the conference upon which this book is based. At that conference, questions related to eight broad areas of tax compliance (ranging from issues surrounding the tax gap, through information exchange and cooperative compliance, and on...

Historically, the tax authority in Australia, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), took a somewhat negative attitude towards tax gap measurement. This attitude, which has changed over the last few years, was largely predicated upon the perceived unreliability of tax gap estimation...

The large‑scale presence and the regressive nature of tax compliance costs, especially those in respect of the value‑added tax (VAT), are well documented features of the tax systems of developed countries. Although there is less evidence available in the case of developing countries,...