THE ANTECEDENTS OF TAXPAYERS COMPLIANCE BEHAVIOR AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THAI LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVIED TAX

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Volume 10 Issue 1 2014

Author(s):

NichapatBoonyarat
Faculty of Management Science SongkhlaRajabhat University Thailand.
tubskru@hotmail.com

Syed Sofian
College of Business University Utara Malaysia Malaysia.
sofian@uum.edu.my

WanidaWadeecharoen
Thonburi University Bangkok Thailand.
wadeecharoen@gmail.com

Abstract This study is the primary research identifying the components of tax fairness perception, tax knowledge and understanding, attitude towards taxation, service quality, and their effects on taxpayers’ satisfaction. A systematic random sampling technique was used for selecting taxpayers via SAO’s name list, by counting the person with every the end of numbers are the first and the sixth in the list be justified. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the causal relationship among tax fairness perception, tax knowledge, and understanding, attitude towards taxation, and service quality with taxpayer’s satisfaction and their compliance behavior empirically. To solve the shortages of government revenue, due to ineffective local government administration in developing countries, there are four sources of antecedent factors were identified in this study. They are tax fairness perception, tax knowledge, and understanding, attitude towards taxation, and service quality. These factors were assuming efficiency in tax collection which effecting to taxpayer’s satisfaction and compliance behavior. The research provides findings from the first study on land Thai local tax, identifies the strategic factors for enhancing local government revenue, and improves the living standard of Thai local people.
Keywords Tax, Compliance Behavior, Local Government, Thailand
Year 2014
Volume 10
Issue 1
Type Full Length Paper
Recognized by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, HEC
Category "Y"
Journal Name IBT Journal of Business Studies
Publisher Name ILMA University
Jel Classification -
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2014.10.01.02
ISSN no (E, Electronic) 2409-6520
ISSN no (P, Print) 2416-8393
Country Pakistan
City Karachi
Institution Type University
Journal Type Open Access
Manuscript Processing Blind Peer Reviewed
Format PDF
Paper Link http://ibtjbs.ilmauniversity.edu.pk/journal/jbs/10.1/2.%20The%20Antecedents%20of%20Taxpayers%20Compliance%20Behavior%20and%20the%20Effectiveness%20of%20Thai%20Local%20Government%20Levied%20Tax.pdf
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