Trusting our institutions: compliance in taxation and the ethics of good governance.

This project will investigate, first of all, how trust forms a necessary personal and collective attitude to stabilize human cooperation in the sphere of tax governance. Secondly, it will flesh out the conditions that threaten the relation between TP and TA and makes distrust to proliferate. And thirdly, it examines the hypothesis that the quality of the trust relation within the sphere of taxation derives necessarily from and mirrors the deeper trust in the quality of political governance within a given political society.

Keywords:PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, TAX LAW, ETHICS

Disciplines:Law, Theory and methodology of philosophy, Philosophy, Ethics, Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified