Bullion
Keywords
Tax Knowledge, Tax Compliance Intention and Patriotism
Abstract
Realizing more tax revenues is a sign of an increase in the tax compliance intention of taxpayers within a given nation. This emanates from the taxpayers' level of readiness and willingness as a result of their accumulated tax knowledge and patriotism. But due to people's behavioral and social limitations, non-tax compliance intention is becoming eminent, leading to a lot of tax gaps and revenue losses on the part of the government to finance its expenditures for the betterment of a country. Not much could be achieved after several research efforts were recently put in place. The Income Tax Evasion Theory was largely used by the prior researcher in addressing the issues. Yet, it turns out to focus more on the coercive side of tax compliance and ignored the psychological and behavioral aspects. The empirical paper provides an extension of the theory to cover the identified psychological and behavioral aspects using tax knowledge and patriotism toward developing a new proposed conceptual framework. Survey data were collected from 323 SME owners in Bauchi state using questionnaires. Path and Multiple regression were used via SmartPLS 4 software to analyse the collected data. Tax knowledge and patriotism were found to have a positive and significant influence on tax compliance intention, but patriotism was found not to have an interactive effect on tax compliance intention.
Publication Title
Bullion
Issue
No. 2
Volume
Volume 47
First Page
51
Last Page
63
Recommended Citation
Saidu, Mansur A. Dr. and Shamsudeen, Ladan Shagari PhD
(2023)
"A Conceptual Framework on Tax Knowledge and Tax Compliance Intention: The Moderating Effect of Patriotism in Nigeria,"
Bullion: Vol. 47:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://dc.cbn.gov.ng/bullion/vol47/iss2/6