What is it about?
This paper explores attitudes regarding tax evasion and the relationship between personal moral philosophy and such attitudes in a weak tax environment. Sometimes people evade taxes for personal interest. Often, however, people recognize that the tax system is unfair, and accordingly tax evasion becomes justifiable to them.
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Why is it important?
This paper explain the various reasons behind tax evasion that drive people towards that behavior, especially in weak tax environment.
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This publication is important for policymakers as well as people who are trying to understand tax evasion behavior.
Professor Yusuf Sidani
American University of Beirut
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This page is a summary of: When idealists evade taxes: the influence of personal moral philosophy on attitudes to tax evasion – a Lebanese study, Business Ethics A European Review, March 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/beer.12046.
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