Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2014 - This version: September 2014
In a real-effort laboratory experiment to manipulate evasion opportunities, we study whether the moral evaluation of … tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the … opportunity to evade taxes judge tax evasion as less unethical as opposed to those who cannot evade. The detection probability …
