AKUNTABILITAS
Vol 8, No 2 (2015): Akuntabilitas

AN APPRAISAL OF THE TAX EVASION AND TAX AVOIDANCE SYSTEM IN INDONESIA

Rahmawati Rahmawati (Faculty of Economic and Business)
Saifullahi Shehu Ibrahim (International Islamic University Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2015

Abstract

Tax avoidance and evasion are pervasive in all countries. This paper, firstreview a literature that integrate the tax avoidance and evasion into overall decisionproblem faced by government. The second, reviews the issue of corruption andbureaucracy, there is a link between tax evasion and corruption. This study uses literatureto analyze the cause and the effect of tax evasion and tax avoidance to environment.Finally, this paper will examine the effect of perceived corruption in government on taxevasion and how should the tax system in Indonesia face the tax evasion problem. Thegovernment attempts to improve the tax compliance in Indonesia with comprehensiveregulation of the schemes of tax avoidance schemes. Therefore, it need a specific antiavoidancerules in Indonesian tax lawDOI: 10.15408/akt.v8i2.2880

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Journal Info

Abbrev

akuntabilitas

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

AKUNTABILITAS (ISSN 1979-858X; E-ISSN 2461-1190) is an Indonesian Accounting Journal published by the Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economic and Business, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University. It specializes in Studies of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Sharia Accounting, ...