Compliance Cost of Employment in Come Tax Payers in Addis Ababa City Administration
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The paper examines the tax compliance costs of employment income taxpayers in Addis Ababa.
one research question and one hypothesis were investigated in this study: (RQ1) how
much compliance costs of the individual income tax system borne directly by the taxpayers
themselves, including both the time spent and pecuniary expenditures? (And (H1) the
compliance costs of individual income tax are relatively low in terms of their costs per
individual: especially costs of time and monetary costs. The survey was conducted to a total of
250 individual income tax payers and questionnaires were distributed to those individual
taxpayers in the administrative city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. A total of 200responses were
received and used for the final data analysis. The findings from the survey provide pertinent
and useful insights about the compliance costs of Addis Ababa individual taxpayers. The
average values per tax payers were 157.78 ETB and the average times spent by tax payers for
filing their tax return were 7.54hrs. In all, the study found that the compliance costs of individual
taxpayers in Addis Ababa were relatively low in term of the total monetary value.
Keywords: compliance cost, income tax, Addis Ababa
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Compliance cost, Income tax, Addis Ababa