Exploring the morality of tax morale


Puklavec, Žiga ; Stavrova, Olga ; Kogler, Christoph ; Zeelenberg, Marcel


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70042
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.7...
Additional URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387928414...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-715000
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2025
The title of a journal, publication series: Journal of community & applied social psychology
Volume: 35
Issue number: 1, e70042
Page range: 1-16
Place of publication: Chichester
Publishing house: Wiley
ISSN: 1052-9284 , 1099-1298
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Social Sciences > Sozialpsychologie und Mikrosoziologie (Stavrova 2025-)
Pre-existing license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Keywords (English): fairness , moral foundations , morality , multiverse analysis , tax morale
Abstract: Tax morale, commonly measured as a moral evaluation of cheating on taxes, is important for shaping policy to increase volun- tary compliance. Although tax morale is commonly understood as citizens' moral responsibility to pay taxes, there is a dearth of empirical research on whether and how differences in basic morality shape tax morale. Three studies investigated associations between moral ideals, as defined by Moral Foundations Theory, and tax morale. Study 1 (N = 103,474; 57 countries) examined how national differences in moral foundations predict individuals' tax morale. Study 2 (N = 1019) and Study 3 (N = 1001) focused on individual-level differences. All studies employed multiverse analyses, iterating through multiple combinations of control var- iables. Despite the apparent semantic similarities between morality and tax morale, consistent empirical connections emerged only with respect to individualising foundations, in particular, fairness. Findings provide first evidence for the role of morality in tax morale, while contributing to a better understanding of why people pay taxes.




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