Fear and caring: procedural justice, trust, and collective identification as antecedents of voluntary tax compliance

Gobena, LB and Van Dijke, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9974-5050, 2017. Fear and caring: procedural justice, trust, and collective identification as antecedents of voluntary tax compliance. Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, pp. 1-16. ISSN 0167-4870

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Abstract

We investigated the interactive roles of procedural justice of the tax authority, trust in the tax authority, and identification with the nation in predicting voluntary tax compliance. Drawing from fairness heuristic theory and relational models of justice, we predicted that the relationship between procedural justice and voluntary tax compliance that has been found particularly among citizens with low (vs. high) trust in the tax authorities is restricted to citizens who weakly (vs. strongly) identify with the nation. The results of a field study with samples of Ethiopian and US taxpayers as respondents largely support our predictions. This research integrates the role of important and well-studied social psychological factors that shape voluntary tax compliance and reveals support for the hypothesis in a developing (i.e., Ethiopia) and a developed (i.e., US) nation – nations with strongly divergent tax climates.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Economic Psychology
Creators:	Gobena, L.B. and Van Dijke, M.
Publisher:	Elsevier B.V.
Date:	October 2017
Volume:	62
ISSN:	0167-4870
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.joep.2017.05.005 DOI S0167487016300915 Publisher Item Identifier
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jill Tomkinson
Date Added:	23 Nov 2017 11:19
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2018 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32079

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