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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book takes
a taxpayer's perspective on the relations taxation creates between
people and their state. Bjoerklund Larsen proposes that in order to
understand tax compliance and cheating, we have to look beyond law,
psychological experiments and surveys to also include tax
collectors and taxpayers' practices. The text explores the view of
taxes seen as citizen's explicit economic relation to the state and
implicit economic relation to all other compatriots. Bjoerklund
Larsen directs our gaze onto the concept of reciprocity, which is
often proposed as an explanation in tax compliance research, and
explores its diverse meanings and implications ethnographically.
The empirical cases are based on ethnography from two opposing tax
practices in Sweden. Firstly, from a study of analysts, auditors,
legal experts and managers at the Swedish Tax Agency and how they,
quite successfully, strive for legitimacy in their tax collecting
activities. Secondly, from fieldwork among a group of middle-aged
Swedes and how they justify their purchasing work off the books -
essentially tax-cheating practices. Sweden is a modern welfare
society with citizens holding rational and secular values, yet
trusting their government and fellow citizens. Sweden also has a
high tax burden that is collected by one of its most revered
governmental agencies - the Swedish Tax Agency - making it an
interesting case studying tax compliance.
How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid,
yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden's most
esteemed bureaucracies - the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to
collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the
application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy
in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project's
passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the
research phase, in discussions with management to its final
abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping
Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims - legal, economic,
cultural - compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book takes
a taxpayer's perspective on the relations taxation creates between
people and their state. Bjoerklund Larsen proposes that in order to
understand tax compliance and cheating, we have to look beyond law,
psychological experiments and surveys to also include tax
collectors and taxpayers' practices. The text explores the view of
taxes seen as citizen's explicit economic relation to the state and
implicit economic relation to all other compatriots. Bjoerklund
Larsen directs our gaze onto the concept of reciprocity, which is
often proposed as an explanation in tax compliance research, and
explores its diverse meanings and implications ethnographically.
The empirical cases are based on ethnography from two opposing tax
practices in Sweden. Firstly, from a study of analysts, auditors,
legal experts and managers at the Swedish Tax Agency and how they,
quite successfully, strive for legitimacy in their tax collecting
activities. Secondly, from fieldwork among a group of middle-aged
Swedes and how they justify their purchasing work off the books -
essentially tax-cheating practices. Sweden is a modern welfare
society with citizens holding rational and secular values, yet
trusting their government and fellow citizens. Sweden also has a
high tax burden that is collected by one of its most revered
governmental agencies - the Swedish Tax Agency - making it an
interesting case studying tax compliance.
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