TAX POLICY AND COMPLIANCE WITH TAX OBLIGATIONS

Tax morale understood as the ethics of compliance is the autonomous cause that motivates positive tax behavior and is most clearly observed when those who engage in it do so in a context where there is no perception of risk no government acceptance and no fiscal compliance with the environment. This causal factor in LAC unlike in developed countries unfortunately has a low impact. Therefore defining the central cause of compliance in this region as tax morale as TORGLER (2007) does seems to be far from reality. After the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 the world became the pessimists'' world. In 1941 at the Lowell Lectures Joseph Schumpeter summarized the state of the debate: The explanation from all sources and accepted by leading economists is that this depression and the unsatisfactory recovery were not the result of the unfavorable circumstances of the particular case but have a deeper meaning.