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A Psychometric Investigation of the Personality Traits Underlying Individual Tax Morale

Stéphane Luchini
Antoine Malezieux
Jason Shogren
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Why do people pay taxes? Rational choice theory has fallen short in answering this question. Another explanation, called “tax morale”, has been promoted. Tax morale captures the behavioral idea that non-monetary preferences (like norm-submission, moral emotions and moral judgments) might be better determinants of tax compliance than monetary trade-offs. Herein we report on two lab experiments designed to assess whether norm-submission, moral emotions (e.g. affective empathy, cognitive empathy, propensity to feel guilt and shame) or moral judgments (e.g. ethics principles, integrity, and moralization of everyday life) can help explain compliance behavior. Although we find statistically significant correlations of tax compliance behavior with empathy and shame, the economic significance of these correlations are low–—more than 80% of the variability in compliance remains unexplained. These results suggest that tax authorities should focus on the institutional context, rather than individual preference characteristics, to handle tax evasion.
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Nicolas Jacquemet, Stéphane Luchini, Antoine Malezieux, Jason Shogren. A Psychometric Investigation of the Personality Traits Underlying Individual Tax Morale. The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, 2019, 19 (3), pp.20180070. ⟨10.1515/bejeap-2018-0149⟩. ⟨hal-02290402⟩
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