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How has paying taxes affect people’s life in America? By: Jennifer Zhang

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  • Why Do People Pay Taxes? Prospect Theory Versus Expected Utility Theory

    Why Do People Pay Taxes? Prospect Theory Versus Expected Utility Theory
    Dhami, Sanjit, and Ali Al-Nowaihi. "Why Do People Pay Taxes? Prospect Theory versus Expected Utility Theory." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 64.1 (2007): 171-92. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. It talks about why people pay taxes and not evade taxes.It uses two different theories to explain the reason to us.The expected utility theory helped increased the tax rate and decreased the amount people evading taxes.The prospect theory explain that people pay taxes because they can gain more from it.

  • How Sales Taxes Affect Customer and Firm Behavior: The Role of Search on the Internet

    How Sales Taxes Affect Customer and Firm Behavior: The Role of Search on the Internet
    Anderson, Eric T., Nathan M. Fong, Duncan I. Simester, and Catherine E. Tucker. "How Sales Taxes Affect Customer and Firm Behavior: The Role of Search on the Internet." Journal of Marketing Research 47.2 (2010): 229-39. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. The article talks about how the sales taxes on items are affecting the internet business. The U.S. saxes starts from 6% and can go as high as 9% on an item. It hurts the internet sales because they now have to lower their price to complete with others stores.

  • Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?

    Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
    Epstein, Gil S., and Ira N. Gang. "Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?" Review of Development Economics 14.2 (2010): 374-85. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. The authors are trying to tell us that why do we have to pay taxes when others are not paying theirs. The authors goes and explain that people try to aviod taxes by evading taxes. It is said that in 1998 around one-thrids of the households in America underpaid their taxes.

  • Axe the Tax: Taxes Are Disliked More than Equivalent Cost

    Axe the Tax: Taxes Are Disliked More than Equivalent Cost
    Sussman, Abigail B., and Christopher Y. Olivola. "Axe the Tax: Taxes Are Disliked More than Equivalent Costs." Journal of Marketing Research 48.SPL (2011): S91-101. Web. 20 Sept. 2014 The authors talks about how tax payer dislike paying taxes so much that they would find ways to aviod paying them.Even though tax payers get benefits from paying taxes they still dilike paying them.It shows that some peaople try to aviod taxes by flying to other states.Taxes can also hurt sales and job selections.

  • A Spoonful of Choice: How Allocation Increases Satisfaction with Tax Payments

    A Spoonful of Choice: How Allocation Increases Satisfaction with Tax Payments
    Lamberton, Cait. "A Spoonful of Choice: How Allocation Increases Satisfaction with Tax Payments." Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 32.2 (2013): 223-38. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. The author argues that their are many tax payers unhappy about paying taxes. The author suggest that the government should allow tax payers to pay small postions like 10% of their tax payment at a time, so that tax payers will be more happy since it doesn't seem like a lot of money when you pay small portions of it.

  • About Tax Compliance: Some Reasons Why People Pay Their Taxes

    About Tax Compliance: Some Reasons Why People Pay Their Taxes
    Radu, Claudia Florina. "About Tax Compliance: Some Reasons Why People Pay Their Taxes." Scientific Journal of Humanistic Studies 6.10 (2014): 107-17. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. The author is trying to tell us that even though peaople are not very willing to pay their taxes, but they are still paying them because they want to get the benefits from paying taxes. These benfits are getting a free education al the way through high school, free public parks, and health insurance.