The Improvement of a Tax Compliance Program: the Case of Mersin City

Abstract

As it known, postgraduate education contributes to the development of individuals who the community needs and have high level knowledge and skills, also it helps to manyindividuals to specialize and have a career. Many public institutions provide scholarships for the development of postgraduate education, also they provide Erasmus facility to them in Turkey. Postgraduate education prepares to individuals to the academic world by combining research methods lesson and on the use of SPSS with a course-based. Students who have completed the 10 lessons in the postgraduate education are starting their thesis studies with the form of a thesis proposal which must be given within the legal process. So we started to work about voluntary tax compliance that we have determined with our advisor after the thesis phase, we have combined it with the basic subjects of the tax ethics and tax consciousness in the Public Finance. The aim of this study is to examine the thesis study for the explain the mechanism of postgraduate education of Mersin University the study named “The Improvement of A Tax Compliance Program: A Case of Mersin City” which currently being carried out with BAP (Scientific Research Projects) support. In this study including that the definition of voluntary compliance, theoretical development and evaluation of successful country implementations. It aims to reach 400 people on the basis of Mersin City by following the quantitative research strategy. Survey method will be used for the collection of data and SPSS Statistics 20 for analyzing of data for empirical part of thesis.* This study was supported by the Research Fund of Mersin University in Turkey with Project Number 2017-1-TP2-2249.