Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100670 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
arqus Discussion Paper No. 174
Publisher: 
Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus), Berlin
Abstract: 
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 does not affect this result. Further, we do not find moral spillover effects, for example, on legal activities.
Subjects: 
Evasion
Tax Morale
Tax Compliance
Self-Serving Bias
Moral Spillover
JEL: 
H20
H26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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