Knock, knock: The taxman's at your door! Practical sense, empathy games, and dilemmas in tax enforcement
dc.contributor.author | Wynter, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Oats, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-16T13:02:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | Tax administrators are empowered by the state to secure compliance with tax obligations. Enforcing compliance on the ground is complex, and street-level administrators often engage in the “art of the possible,” leading to dilemmas in the feld. This paper examines tax administrators’ practices with regard to Jamaican property tax defaulters with outstanding tax liabilities in excess of 3 years. Drawing on interviews with tax administrators and other key agents, we fnd that tax administrators reposition themselves from objective enforcers to empathizing ofcials engaging in schemes of action, doing what they can do rather than what they should do. This is a practical-sense approach to securing compliance. We identify two forms of empathy, assimilated and cynical, and conclude that administrators’ empathetic identifcation with defaulters does not necessarily arise solely from concern for social cohesion, or inter-subjective compassion, but also sometimes from self-interest. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 12 October 2019 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10551-019-04300-x | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/S00713X/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/39238 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dilemmas | en_GB |
dc.subject | Empathy games | en_GB |
dc.subject | Practical sense | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tax administration practices | en_GB |
dc.title | Knock, knock: The taxman's at your door! Practical sense, empathy games, and dilemmas in tax enforcement | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-16T13:02:50Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0167-4544 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Business Ethics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-09-30 | |
exeter.funder | ::Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-09-30 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-10-16T13:00:38Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-10-16T13:02:53Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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