The use of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) in Taxpayers' Behaviour Modelling
- 1 Studies and Research Laboratory in Applied Mathematics (LERMA), Mohammadia School of Engineering, Mohamed V University, Rabat BP 765, Morocco
Abstract
In this study, we analyze taxpayers' behaviour regarding tax system. We present a theoretical study of a model pre established by other authors based on the expected utility theory; taxpayer's behavior is assumed to be risk-averse. We have released some conditions of this model and we have introduced a new parameter reflecting the efficiency of tax control; we found that the efficiency of a fiscal control have an important effect on these interactions. Previous studies are based on a maximal efficiency of tax control, which is a particular case of our model. We found that for Moroccan case, the fraud is related to the size of companies; it's more important in the big companies than small and medium enterprises. This result can be used as a tool to reconsider administrative approaches of tax compliance.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2017.245.251
Copyright: © 2017 Farid Ameur and Mohamed Tkiouat. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Expected Utility Theory
- Prospect Theory
- Survey
- Tax Fraud
- Tax Audit
- Tax Compliance
- Taxpayers
- Behaviour
- JEL Classification Codes: H3, C5