{"id":332862,"date":"2010-02-17T21:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2010-02-17T21:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:41:34","slug":"the-2009-taxpayer-attitude-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332862","title":{"rendered":"The 2009 Taxpayer Attitude Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Some very interesting results from <a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2010\/02\/the-geithner-effect-.html\" >the eighth survey by the IRS Oversight Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the TaxProf Blog link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How much, if any, do you think is an acceptable amount to cheat on your income taxes?<\/em> A little here and there, 9% (highest in 6 years)<\/li>\n<li><em>How important is it to you, as a taxpayer, that the IRS does each of the following to ensure that all taxpayers honestly pay what they owe &#8212; Ensures high-income taxpayers are reporting and paying their taxes honestly?<\/em> Very important, 83% (all-time high)<\/li>\n<li><em>How important is it to you, as a taxpayer, that the IRS does each of the following to ensure that all taxpayers honestly pay what they owe &#8212; Ensures small businesses are reporting and paying their taxes honestly?<\/em> Very important, 76% (all-time high)<\/li>\n<li><em>How much influence does each of the following factors have on whether you report and pay your taxes honestly &#8212; Fear of an audit?<\/em> Great deal of influence, 39% (all-time high)<\/li>\n<li><em>How much influence does each of the following factors have on whether you report and pay your taxes honestly &#8212; <\/em><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:x-small;\"><em>Belief that your neighbors are reporting and paying honestly?<\/em> Great deal of influence<em>,<\/em> <\/span><\/span>17% (all-time low)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6766\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6766&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some very interesting results from the eighth survey by the IRS Oversight Board. From the TaxProf Blog link: How much, if any, do you think is an acceptable amount to cheat on your income taxes? A little here and there, 9% (highest in 6 years) How important is it to you, as a taxpayer, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}