Improving tax compliance through reminder messages for taxpayers

Sending tax reminder messages to taxpayers is a cost-effective strategy to increase short-term tax compliance.

A review of 36 randomized evaluations and a quasi-experimental evaluation in 32 countries shows that sending simplified tax reminder messages is a highly ...

How normative messaging increased tax compliance by 15%

The Behavioural Insights Team in the UK found that more people paid their owing taxes when location-specific normative messages were added to reminder ...

How to Best Remind Taxpayers of Their Obligations

There is growing interest in explaining what motivates individuals to pay their taxes in full and on time, and the best way to deal with tax delinquency.

Impact of Filing Reminder Outreach on Voluntary Filing Compliance ...

Pilot 1 included taxpayers who went through the ASFR process and whose case was resolved by the taxpayer filing a delinquent tax return in Calendar Year 2015.

COMMUNICATING TO IMPROVE COMPLIANCE - Rra.gov.rw

... reminding taxpayers of the tax due date through SMS at least five days before tax was due was appreciated and requested to be maintained. 7. Taxpayers felt ...

Improving tax compliance through public disclosure: Evidence from ...

Examining payment rates before and after the onset of the experiment, it appears that receiving any kind of SMS reminder appears to play a ...

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING TAX COMPLIANCE THROUGH ...

“The transparency of a tax system refers to taxpayers' ability to understand how their liabilities are calculated, the logic behind the tax laws ...

Tax Compliance in Rwanda: Evidence from a Message Field ...

Each taxpayer was randomly allocated to a treatment group or a control group that received no message. Treatment messages varied in terms of content (deterrence ...

How to Best Remind Taxpayers of Their Obligations?

Tax compliance can be affected by how taxpayers are informed of their outstanding liabilities. In Colombia, in-person visits from a tax inspector were ...

9 Assisting Taxpayers in Meeting Their Obligations Under the Law in

A primary element of taxpayer services is to inform the public of their duties and responsibilities under the tax laws. It is essential that tax administrators ...

The direct and indirect effects of messages on tax compliance

The second type (henceforth “social norms”) informs about the compliance of other taxpayers living in the same districts. The third type (henceforth “altruism”) ...

How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide ...

For late taxpayers, the simplified reminder increases subsequent tax payment by as much as 23% (relative to the baseline reminder). Reducing information ...

Evaluating the Impact of SMS Reminders on Tax Compliance

All messages sent before the deadline, regardless of the content, were effective at increasing taxpayer declaration rates, with an effect for each message ...

Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance

... in the UK, we show that including social norms and public goods messages in standard tax payment reminder letters considerably enhances tax compliance. The ...

How to improve tax compliance: Evidence from population-wide ...

It finds that simplifying communication from tax administrators can improve tax compliance, nudge taxpayers to pay on time, and make late filers comply more ...

Improving tax compliance without increasing revenue

This process revealed that deterrence messages were not seen as credible by taxpayers and there were genuine concerns these types of nudges may even backfire as ...

APPLYING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO TAX COMPLIANCE

... messages seem to show promise in terms of improving income tax compliance. ... messages) from previous tax experiments, along with a simple reminder message,.

How tax systems impose psychological burdens on taxpayers

Messages emphasised the monitoring capacity of tax authorities, the potential for penalties, and a general reminder to avoid the hassle of fines ...

4 Communicating tax to raise awareness - OECD iLibrary

on research methods are useful in increasing compliance and that behavioural insight messages ... reminder messages sent to taxpayers increases tax compliance (De.