An Empirical Analysis of the Ethical Reasoning of Tax Practitioners

How tax practitioners approach ethical dilemmas remains generally unexplored in academic literature. We use here Rest’s original Defining Issues Test (Development in judging moral issues. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979; Moral development. Advances in research and theory. New York:...

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Authors: Doyle, Elaine (Author) ; Frecknall-Hughes, Jane (Author) ; Summers, Barbara 1944- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2013
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2013, 卷: 114, 發布: 2, Pages: 325-339
Further subjects:B Tax practice
B Tax practitioner
B Revenue practitioner
B Moral Reasoning
B DIT
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總結:How tax practitioners approach ethical dilemmas remains generally unexplored in academic literature. We use here Rest’s original Defining Issues Test (Development in judging moral issues. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979; Moral development. Advances in research and theory. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986), combined with a tax context-specific test and in conjunction with a control group of non-tax specialists, to examine tax practitioners’ moral reasoning in a social and tax context. We investigate: (i) the effect of a tax context on issues raised (finding that practitioners generally reason at lower levels than in social scenarios); (ii) whether the profession attracts people who reason at certain levels (finding that it does not); and (iii) whether practitioners are affected by training/socialization in their professional context (finding that that they are).
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1347-x