The Effect of Economic Freedom on Tax Evasion and Social Welfare: An Empirical Evidence

This study is to examine the effect of economic freedom on tax evasion and social welfare for 63 countries by using multi-regression method. The findings indicate that economic freedom and tax evasion have a statistically significant and negative correlation, whereas economic freedom and social welf...

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Published inJournal of management & economics Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors Tekin, Ahmet, Güney, Taner, Sağdıç, Ersin Nail
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Manisa Celal Bayar Universitesi, Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakultesi 01.01.2018
Subjects
Corporate taxes
Corruption
Developing countries
Impact analysis
Income taxes
Industrialized nations
LDCs
Money laundering
Profits
Social conditions & trends
Studies
Tax evasion
Tax rates
Tax revenues
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Summary:This study is to examine the effect of economic freedom on tax evasion and social welfare for 63 countries by using multi-regression method. The findings indicate that economic freedom and tax evasion have a statistically significant and negative correlation, whereas economic freedom and social welfare have a meaningful and positive correlation. Accordingly, enhancing economic freedom causes an increase in social welfare, and prevents tax evasion.
ISSN:1302-0064
2458-8253
DOI:10.18657/yonveek.299237