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Trust In Government Institutions And Tax Morale, Antonios M. Koumpias, Gabriel Leonardo, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Trust In Government Institutions And Tax Morale, Antonios M. Koumpias, Gabriel Leonardo, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
ICEPP Working Papers
What actions do governments around the world take that may affect individuals’ trust in the government that positively influence tax morale (or a positive attitude toward tax compliance)? This paper researches which are the most salient government institutions that breed individual trust and the extent to which this trust ends up increasing citizens’ tax morale. We use cross-country survey information from the World Values Survey and the Freedom House spanning 92 countries and six survey waves during the period 1981-2014. Conditional on the level of political rights and civil liberties, we confirm prior evidence that trust in government organizations positively …