Corruption, Government Efficiency and Tax Compliance: Evidence from an Experimental Survey Using Facebook in Chile

This study evaluates the effect of information distribution through Facebook on Chilean citizens perception of corruption, government effectiveness, and tax compliance. Preliminary results show that when favorable data on corruption and government efficiency are shown graphically in Chile, the perception of corruption and inefficiency is reduced by 10.5 and 3.8 percentage points, respectively.

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Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Gastón Pierri
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:Taxation, Tax Evasion, Taxpayer, Information Management, Tax Compliance, Transparency and Anticorruption, Digital Citizenship, Social Media, Behavioral Economics, Microeconomy, Institutional Strengthening, H21 - Efficiency • Optimal Taxation, H26 - Tax Evasion and Avoidance, H30 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General, D73 - Bureaucracy • Administrative Processes in Public Organizations • Corruption, social networks;tax behavior;perception of corruption;corruption;perception of government effectiveness;transparency;Tax evasion,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004499
https://publications.iadb.org/en/corruption-government-efficiency-and-tax-compliance-evidence-experimental-survey-using-facebook
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Summary:This study evaluates the effect of information distribution through Facebook on Chilean citizens perception of corruption, government effectiveness, and tax compliance. Preliminary results show that when favorable data on corruption and government efficiency are shown graphically in Chile, the perception of corruption and inefficiency is reduced by 10.5 and 3.8 percentage points, respectively.