The Influence of Tax Education on Tax Compliance. A Study of Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS)

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 65% (Grade B), , course: Accounting, language: English, abstract: Taxation is one of the important elements in managing national income, especially in developed countries and has played an important role in civilized societies since their inception. Thus, this study established the influence of tax education on taxpayer’s voluntary compliance behaviour in Lagos State, Nigeria by assessing the influence of taxpayer’s education level on tax compliance and also investigates the influence of taxpayer’s income level on tax compliance. This study adopted a survey research design and the data required for this study was gotten through the instrument of questionnaire. One hundred and twenty - five (125) copies of questionnaire were administered to the staff of Lagos State Internal Revenue Service using convenience sampling technique out of which one hundred and sixteen (116) were retrieved for analysis. Two hypotheses were formulated from the structure of research questions. Chi-square analysis was used to test the hypotheses through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences.