Title: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE TAX COMPLIANCE: THE MODERATING ROLES OF GOVERNANCE MANAGERIAL GENDER AND MULTILEVEL PREDICTIVE MODELLING WITH AI
Authors Rajeswaran Ayyadurai, Karthikeyan Parthasarathy, Naresh Kumar Reddy Panga, Jyothi Bobba and R Padmavathy
Abstract:

Tax compliance is, indeed, of paramount importance to governments, businesses, and societies. This is because it affects the amount of revenue a government can collect and determines economic development patterns. The decision-making process of entities in respect to following tax laws is based on diverse factors, such as governance structures, managerial characteristics, and financial access. Usually, there have been studies on the relationships between governance and compliance, but they have failed to address how gender moderates these factors when interactions for tax behavior take place. This study will look into the multilevel interactions of corporate governance, the gender of managers, and tax compliance. It will use traditional approaches such as multinomial logistic regression to determine how audit status, access to finance, and country governance affect tax compliance. The meditation and moderation analyses delve into indirect access to finance and moderator roles of gender and governance. Results show that audits do not lead to higher compliance unless they are supported by the access to finance process; in this context, better governance structures further enhance compliance. Female management compliance tends to be higher in contexts characterized by strong governance. Moreover, governance quality magnifies the impact of audit and financial access on compliance, reinforcing the view that strength of the institutional environment is critical for tax compliance. Moreover, neural network AI-based multilevel predictive modeling was used to examine the interplay between governance, managerial gender, and financial access in relation to corporate tax compliance. This AI model embraces subordination of data into two hierarchical levels-for firms and countries-while providing accurate predictions. Different scenarios or interventions are simulated through the model to give insights for better tax compliance strategies. So that they can appreciate compliance dynamics for targeted policymaking.

Keywords: Corporate Tax Compliance, World Bank Enterprise Survey, Country Governance, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Governance Framework
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38193/IJRCMS.2024.6522
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Date of Publication: 05-11-2024
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Published Volume & Issue: Volume 6 Issue 5 Sep-Oct 2024