Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51749 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5378
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a cross-country approach - which has not been investigated before. Our theoretical analysis leads to two testable predictions. First, an individual's tax morale is higher, the more progressive the tax schedule is. Second, the impact of tax progressivity on tax morale is declining in income. In our empirical analysis, we make use of a unique dataset of tax progressivity measures and follow most of the tax morale literature by employing the World Values Survey to measure tax morale. Controlling for a wide range of variables, we confirm both hypotheses in our empirical analysis.
Subjects: 
tax morale
tax compliance
progressivity
taxation
redistribution
JEL: 
H26
H24
D7
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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