Tax Amnesty Research Articles

The Effect of Behavioral Nudging and Deterrence Factors on the Tax Amnesty Participation Process

The Effect of Behavioral Nudging and Deterrence Factors on the Tax Amnesty Participation Process

Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Governments often use partial forgiveness policy to induce debt repayments and increase the disclosure of hidden debts. While ubiquitous, much remains unknown about how well these amnesties work, for whom, and why. We partnered with the Dominican Republic Tax Authority to design a natural field experiment to understand whether, and what types of, nudges can increase amnesty take-up and repayment. Our field experiment, which covers 125,452 taxpayers collectively owing 5.5% of GDP in known debt, tests the impact of messages from the tax authority during an amnesty that highlight deterrence laws, beliefs about future amnesties, and tax morale messages for debt payment and disclosure. Importantly, we find large short-run effects—our most effective treatment increased payments of known debt by 25% and hidden debt by 48%—that are only slightly undone by reductions in subsequent tax payments.

The Role of Law in Taxation Policy as an Economic Control Tool: A Case Study of Tax Amnesty in Indonesia

This study examines the role of law in Indonesia's tax amnesty policy as a means of economic control. Using normative legal research, the study analyzes secondary data from primary, secondary, and tertiary legal sources. The findings reveal that Indonesia's low tax ratio and widespread taxpayer non-compliance, including forgery, underreporting, and asset concealment, remain significant challenges for tax policy. These challenges stem from both suboptimal tax collection mechanisms and taxpayer resistance. Despite the controversy surrounding tax amnesty, the law plays a strategic role in providing legal certainty, encouraging honest reporting, and increasing state revenue, which is essential for national development.

Trust in Government and Tax Compliance in Indonesia and Malaysia: Do Ethics and Tax Amnesty Matter?

This study examines the moderating role of tax amnesty and the mediating role of ethics in the relationship between trust in government and tax compliance among taxpayers in Indonesia and Malaysia. The data were analysed using the structural equation modeling to examine the mediating role of ethics and hierarchical regression analysis to test the moderating role of tax amnesty in the relationship between trust and tax compliance. Based on the sample collection using the purposive sampling method, the study included 529 respondents from Indonesia and 137 from Malaysia. The findings reveal that the relationship between trust in government and taxpayer compliance is statistically significant with ethics as full mediator in Indonesia. However, the relationship between trust in government and tax compliance is not statistically significant in Malaysia. Ethics has a direct effect on tax compliance in both countries. Tax amnesty does not show a moderating effect in the relationship between trust in government and tax compliance. However, it plays a negative predictive role for tax compliance in Indonesia. This study will assist the government in developing tax compliance strategies to increase tax revenue with the launch of a similar program without neglecting the honest taxpayer.

Pengaruh Kesadaran Wajib Pajak, Pengatahuan Pajak, Sanksi Pajak, dan Tax Amnesty terhadap Kapatuhan Wajib Pajak Kendaraan Bermotor Roda Empat di Kota Kupang dengan Sosialisasi Pajak sebagai Variabel Moderasi (Studi di SAMSAT Kota Kupang)

This research aims to determine the influence of taxpayer awareness, taxpayer knowledge, tax sanctions and tax amnesty on tax socialization and motor vehicle taxpayer compliance in Kupang City. This research is included in the quantitative research category. The research results show that taxpayer responses to tax amnesty, tax sanctions, taxpayer awareness, and taxpayer compliance with four-wheeled motorized vehicles are positive. Factors that have a major influence on motor vehicle taxpayer compliance are: tax amnesty, tax knowledge, tax sanctions, and taxpayer awareness. The influence of taxpayer awareness, tax knowledge, and tax sanctions on motor vehicle taxpayer compliance can be mitigated by tax socialization. However, the effect of the tax amnesty on motor vehicle taxpayer compliance cannot be mitigated by tax socialization.

Pengaruh Kepatuhan Pajak, Kualitas Pelayanan Pajak dan Biaya Sanksi Kepatuhan Pajak terhadap Penerimaan Pajak Kendaraan Bermotor dengan Tax Amnesty sebagai Variabel Moderasi pada UPT Badan Pendapatan Daerah Wilayah Kabupaten Kupang

This research aims to determine the effect of tax compliance, tax service quality and tax compliance sanction costs on motor vehicle tax revenues with tax amnesty as a moderating variable at the Kupang Regency Regional Revenue Agency UPT. This research involved conducting a quantitative survey. The sample used as the main data source was 100 Kupang Regency taxpayers. Inferential statistical analysis is a type of data analysis method used in this research. The results of this research statistically found that taxpayer compliance does not have a significant influence on motor vehicle tax revenue. However, the quality of tax services and sanction fees have a positive and significant influence on motor vehicle tax revenues in the UPT activities of the Kupang Regency Regional Revenue Agency. Meanwhile, the tax amnesty variable as a moderating variable has an influence on motor vehicle tax revenues, but the tax amnesty variable is unable to moderate the influence of taxpayer compliance and compliance sanctions costs on motor vehicle tax revenues. The tax amnesty variable is only able to moderate the influence of service quality on motor vehicle tax revenues in the UPT activities of the Kupang Regency Regional Revenue Agency

Integrating tax amnesty, CSR, and emerging technologies: Exploring ethical challenges and strategic choices

This paper explores the relationship between tax amnesty programs and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), focusing on the ethical challenges businesses face as they navigate financial decisions and societal obligations. While tax amnesty offers financial relief, it raises significant concerns about ethical behavior and transparency. The evolution of CSR into a strategic priority necessitates a careful balance between financial goals and broader societal contributions. Emerging technologies, such as artficial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and data analytics, are transforming tax compliance and CSR practices by enhancing transparency and accountability, but they also introduce new ethical dilemmas. This study integrates theoretical frameworks with practical insights, highlighting the need for businesses to align tax amnesty participation with CSR objectives. Key themes include the role of emerging technologies, ethical decision-making, and the alignment of financial incentives with societal values. By examining these dynamics, the research contributes valuable insights into how businesses can effectively manage the intersection of tax amnesty and CSR, promoting ethical practices and societal well-being.

PENGARUH PEMAHAMAN PERATURAN PERPAJAKAN, KEWAJIBAN MORAL DAN TAX AMNESTY TERHADAP KEPATUHAN WAJIB PAJAK ORANG PRIBADI

This study aims to analyze the influence of understanding tax regulations, moral obligations and tax amnesty on individual taxpayer compliance. This study was conducted on individual taxpayers registered at KPP Pratama Pondok Aren with a population of 427,078 taxpayers where the sample obtained by the slovin test was 100 individual taxpayers with a sampling technique using accidental sampling. The data used in this study are primary data collected using a questionnaire. The analysis technique uses multiple linear regression with the help of SPSS software version 22. The results of the analysis show that understanding tax regulations, moral obligations, and tax amnesty simultaneously have a positive effect on individual taxpayer compliance. Understanding tax regulations partially has a positive effect on individual taxpayer compliance. Moral obligations partially have a positive effect on individual taxpayer compliance. Tax amnesty partially has a positive effect on individual taxpayer compliance

PENGARUH KESADARAN WAJIB PAJAK, SOSIALISASI PERPAJAKAN, DAN PROGRAM PEMUTIHAN PAJAK TERHADAP KEPATUHAN WAJIB PAJAK KENDARAAN BERMOTOR

The regional revenue heavily relies on vehicle taxes, playing a crucial role as one of the main pillars in generating significant income to support local development. Therefore, optimizing state revenue becomes crucial to achieve the government's expected targets. This research aims to examine the effects of taxpayer awareness, tax socialization efforts, and tax amnesty programs on the compliance level of vehicle taxpayers. The population focused on in this study consists of vehicle taxpayers registered at the SAMSAT office in Bogor City. Data collection utilized the simple random sampling method and Slovin's formula to obtain a sample size of 400 respondents. The type of data used is primary data analyzed through the use of a questionnaire with the assistance of SPSS software version 26, and the results were analyzed using a multiple linear regression analysis approach. The findings of this research prove that taxpayer awareness, tax socialization, and tax amnesty programs have a positive impact at a significance level of 5% (X1= 0.266, X2= 0.306, and X3= 0.318).

Pengaruh Pengetahuan Perpajakan, Sanksi Perpajakan, dan Kualitas Pelayanan terhadap Keikutsertaan Program Tax Amnesty dengan Kondisi Keuangan sebagai Variabel Moderasi

This study aims to prove the effect of taxation, tax sanctions, and service quality on participation in the tax amnesty program with financial condition as a moderating variable. This research is quantitative and primary data. Research time: This research was conducted from April to May 2023 with 105 respondents, namely taxpayers. This study uses Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) where the results of the research show that knowledge of taxation does not affect participation in the tax amnesty program. Meanwhile, tax sanctions and service quality influence tax amnest participation. As well as financial conditions moderate the influence of tax knowledge on participation in tax amnesty while financial conditions do not moderate the effect of tax sanctions on participation in tax amnesty and financial conditions do not moderate the effect of service quality on participation in tax amnesty.

Tax avoidance and sustainability reporting: Alignment or greenwashing strategy?

AbstractThis study examines the relationship between sustainability reporting and tax avoidance, distinguishing genuine alignment with environmental and social commitments from greenwashing strategies. We also examine the impact of tax amnesty programs on these reporting motives. Using Indonesian nonfinancial listed firms in the 2010–2018 period, this study reveals that these firms employ sustainability reporting as a means of impression management to conceal their tax avoidance practices. Moreover, we document a negative relationship between sustainability reporting and tax avoidance when the firms participate in the tax amnesty program. Our findings are robust, and we provide several additional analyses to expand our contribution. Lastly, our study is believed to be one of the few that focuses on providing empirical evidence on how sustainability reporting is utilized as a “smokescreen” of tax avoidances.

Criticizing the Asset Repatriation Policy for Tax Amnesty in Indonesia: An Interpretive and Comparative Study

Criticizing the Asset Repatriation Policy for Tax Amnesty in Indonesia: An Interpretive and Comparative Study

ANALISIS INCREASE TAX DAN TAX AMNESTY TERHADAP TAX ASSURANCE DALAM PROBABILITAS PEMERIKSAAN PAJAK

Charge is a required commitment owed by people or substances. In this context, the SAMSAT office participates in public services, contributing to fiscal monitoring and supervision of tax amnesty implementation. It was found that individuals tend to disagree more than agree with tax amnesty, but tax amnesty tends to improve tax compliance. The research method used was qualitative, involving interview sessions at the SAMSAT office. The goal was to gather detailed information about various aspects of public services, with the main objective of providing constructive suggestions to enhance service standards. Interviews were conducted at the Samsat UPT Wilayah I Kota Pontianak, covering the overall profile and structure of the institution, as well as documents related to tax regulations. The research results indicate that increased taxes impact tax assurance, affecting both expenditures and central taxes. Tax rates in daily collections are subject to change, and tax assurance plays a crucial role in handling and overseeing local taxpayers. The government ensures compliance with existing tax regulations, monitored by the Regional Revenue Agency and the State Audit Board, with annual routines to engage the general public in a timely manner.

Commodity Price and Indonesian Fiscal Policy: An SVAR Analysis with Non-Gaussian Errors

Abstract This study exploits the non-Gaussianity for identification of a Bayesian SVAR model on newly unexplored monthly Indonesian data from 2007M1–2022M12, where we disentangle the commodity-related revenue from the total government revenues. Our main contribution is in labeling the statistically identified structural shocks as economic shocks by conducting a formal assessment of a set of proposed sign constraints. We simultaneously label a commodity price and three fiscal policy shocks, i.e. fiscal income tax, investment-spending, and consumption-spending shocks. Having evaluated their impacts, among the fiscal policy shocks, we find income tax shock the most impactful on output. Moreover, during the Covid crisis 2020–2021, the launched fiscal economic stimulus package (PEN program) positively contributed to the output. The recession of the Covid crisis could have deepened had the fiscal policymaker not responded at all. Albeit so, we should not overlook the contribution of the rising commodity prices to the output recovery. We also evaluate the commodity boom period in 2007–2009, the tax amnesty program in 2016–2017 and 2022, and the infrastructure spending boost in 2015. Our results suggest that output and retail sales would have been lower without the commodity price shock’s contribution during the commodity boom. Then, we find that tax amnesty and infrastructure spending boost policies contribute to higher retail sales.

An Econometric Research on the Economic Effects of Tax Amnesties

Nowadays, especially developing countries need different resources to meet their expenditures. In this context, the issue of tax amnesties maintains its place on the agenda both in the economic and political arena. The economic effects of tax amnesties are still discussed in the literature. In this study, the relationship between tax amnesties and some macroeconomic variables (tax revenues, inflation, growth) has been econometrically tested for Turkey for the period of 1980-2021. In the study, in which ARDL model was used, cointegration relationship was determined between tax amnesties, tax revenues, inflation and growth. In addition, it has been determined that tax amnesties have positive effects on growth and inflation through tax revenues in both the short and long run.

Tax Revenue Achievement: Between Tax Amnesty and the Voluntary Disclosure Program at KPP Pratama Batu

his research aims to determine the number of taxpayers who participated in the Tax Amnesty Program and the Voluntary Disclosure Program as well as the tax revenue achievements from these two programs at KPP Pratama Batu along with factors inhibiting the success of the two programs. This research is a descriptive comparative quantitative research using secondary data from KPP Pratama Batu. The data analysis technique uses the Mann-Whitney test. The research results show that as many as 7.72% of the number of registered taxpayers in 2017 at KPP Pratama Batu participated in the Tax Amnesty program by contributing 36.1 trillion or 30% of the total tax revenue in 2017 at KPP Pratama Batu. Meanwhile, 1.30% of the number of registered taxpayers in 2022 at KPP Pratama Batu participated in the Voluntary Disclosure Program by contributing 31.1 trillion or 20% of the total tax revenue in 2022 at KPP Pratama Batu. This shows that there is a difference between the Tax Amnesty Program and the Voluntary Disclosure Program (PPS) at KPP Pratama Batu. Meanwhile, the inhibiting factors for the Tax Amnesty Program and the Voluntary Disclosure Program are high rates and less effective methods of conveying program information to taxpayers.

Assessing the Effects of Knowledge, Taxpayer Awareness, Tax Amnesty, and Socialization on Motor Vehicle Tax Compliance

Assessing the Effects of Knowledge, Taxpayer Awareness, Tax Amnesty, and Socialization on Motor Vehicle Tax Compliance

Accountants’ perspective on tax amnesty enhances tax compliance dimensions in extended slippery slope framework

Accountants’ perspective on tax amnesty enhances tax compliance dimensions in extended slippery slope framework

Asymmetric Relations Between Indonesia and Singapore

The effort to repatriate funds stored abroad by Indonesian citizens, as part of the 2016 Tax Amnesty Program by the government, was deemed a failure. Only 14% of the expected funds were brought back into the country. This is very disappointing, considering the government needs substantial funds to support the financing of Indonesia's economic development, especially physical economic infrastructure development. Given that a significant portion of the funds held abroad by Indonesians is in Singapore and that the Indonesian government had requested Singapore's assistance to facilitate the repatriation of these funds, this phenomenon raises interesting questions. There are even suspicions that the Singaporean government did not care enough, and may have even hindered these repatriation efforts. This paper attempts to highlight this issue and place it within the study of a central concept in political science and international relations, namely power. Considering physical geographical size (Indonesia being the largest), demographic (the largest population), and economic (the largest GDP), why can the much larger country not influence the smaller one? Why is “Goliath” powerless in front of “Lilliput”? This case triggers a theoretical discussion about the meaning of power in political science and international relations analysis. How is power discussed in this body of knowledge? Among the various approaches in the literature, one that aptly describes the situation where the "large" is powerless against the "small" is Benjamin Cohen's "power of the balance of payment."

Pengaruh Digitalisasi Pajak, Tax Amnesty, dan Sanksi Pajak Terhadap Kepatuhan Wajib Pajak: Studi Kasus Wajib Pajak Orang Pribadi di Kantor Pelayanan Pajak (KPP) Surabaya Mulyorejo

The role of taxes is very important in the administration of the government and the draft of the State Budget (APBN), this is because taxes are the largest source of state revenue, which contributes 80% of total state revenue. Therefore, the government does many ways to optimize tax revenue and taxpayer compliance. This study aims to analyze the effect of tax digitalization, tax amnesty, and tax sanctions on individual taxpayer compliance at KPP Pratama Surabaya Mulyorejo. This research was conducted by quantitative methods and used primary data objects obtained from the distribution of questionnaires as many as 100 respondents. The object of research is a non-employee individual taxpayer registered at KPP Surabaya Mulyorejo. To analyze the data, multiple linear regression was used with the help of SPSS Version 25 software. The results showed that tax digitalization did not affect the compliance of non-employee individual taxpayers registered at KPP Surabaya Mulyorejo. Tax amnesty has a positive effect on the compliance of non-employee individual taxpayers registered at KPP Surabaya Mulyorejo. Tax sanctions have no effect on the compliance of non-employee individual taxpayers registered at KPP Surabaya Mulyorejo.