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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Rafiu Oyesola Salawu

Department of Management & Accounting, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

Managing Editor

Professor Godwin Emmanuel Oyedokun

Department of Management & Accounting, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

Editorial Board Secretary

Mary-Fidelis Chidoziem Abiahu

Director, Research and Professional Standard, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria

Editorial Board Members

Professor Chinedum Nathaniel Nwezeaku

Federal University of Technology, Owerri

Professor John Adeoti

Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan

Professor Uche Jack-Osimiri

Faculty of Law, River State University, Port Harcourt

Professor Aruwa Suleiman Akwu-Odo Salihu

Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State Nigeria

Dr. Eiya Ofiafoh Ofiafoh (Associate Professor)

Department of Accounting, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

Dr. Stephen Chukwuemeka Mark Abani

MCSA Worldwide Projects Limited, Abuja, Nigeria

Dr. Kenny Adedapo Soyemi

Department of Accounting, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

Professor Joseph Uchenna Uwaleke

Department of Banking & Finance, Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Barrister Chukwuemeka Eze

Faculty of Law, Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Mr. Simon Nwanmaghyi Kato

Federal Inland Revenue Service, Chairman’s Office, Abuja, Nigeria

Issue 2, September 2022

Description

TAX AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE IN SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA

Authors

Olajide Julius ADEBOWALE and Olusegun David DADA

Abstract

The study examined the effect of tax audit on compliance in South Western Nigeria. Four hundred (400) questionnaires were delivered to taxable individuals in the states of Osun, Ogun, Ondo, and Ekiti, Oyo, and Lagos States, which together comprise the South-west zone. The data for the study were acquired through the administration of a questionnaire utilizing the cluster sampling approach. In each of the states, a total of one hundred (100 respondents) questionnaires were handed out. When putting the stated hypothesis to test, the ordinary least square (OLS) method was used. According to the findings of the research conducted in Nigeria, there is a correlation that is both positive and statistically significant between the independent variable (tax audit) and dependent variable (tax compliance). According to the findings of the research, a positive and statistically significant relationship exists between tax audit and tax compliance in Nigeria. This suggests that the independent variable contributes to an increase in tax compliance. According to the findings of the research, it is advised that persuasive tax measures, such as tax education and tax justice, be combined with deterrent tax measures, such as tax audits, in order to enforce tax compliance.

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