Factors Affecting Tax Audit Effectiveness Evidence from Large Tax Payers office of Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
he purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting tax audit effectiveness on large tax
payer’s office. The study stands to answer the following research question “How do audit quality,
management support, organizational setting, auditee attributes, organizational independence and
the interplay among them, influence audit effectiveness in LTO?” In light of this objective the
study adopted mixed research method of research approaches to test a series research hypothesis.
Specifically, the study used survey of questionnaire analysisoffices’ on tax auditors and interview
analysis on team leaders and process owners. Then tax auditors and team leaders were selected
based on simple random sampling method of census method. Because, the target population to be
studied is small. In large tax payer’s office there are 62 tax auditors supervised and lead by 10 team
leaders managed by two process owners. Then the researcher distributes those questioners to the 62
tax auditors, only 59 of them are returned. Consequently,
Data
was
then
analyzed
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quantitative basis using Pearson’s correlation, linear regression analysis and descriptive
statistics. Qualitatively interview and documentary evidences summarized and presented. The
results showed that there is no statistical significance negative relationship between auditee
attributes and tax audit effectiveness. Besides, the results showed that Tax Audit Effectiveness of
Large tax payer’s office is highly affected by audit quality of the department, managements support
and the organizations independence from unethical practices. While as auditors perception it
doesn’t
be
affected
by
organizational
i
setting
and
auditees
attribute
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Customs Authority, Tax Payers office