Can corruption be prevented by increasing tax auditing in Turkey?
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2015
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Aiming to determine the relationship between corruption and tax auditing during the period of 1985-2011 in Turkey, our study determines the relationship between the variables using the Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Analysis. The results from VAR Granger Causality Test indicate that audit rate variable has an impact on the corruption index and also corruption index variable on the share of the tax revenues in the general budget revenues. The Variance Decomposition Analysis results used in order to determine the most effective of the variable on those in the model show that corruption variable acts as an exogenous variable in the short-term. In other words, corruption is not affected by other variables in the short term. Changes in index of corruption are largely due to the corruption itself and audit rate in the long term. However, results of Impulse-Response Analysis to show whether the effective variable could be used as an effective policy instrument indicate that variable likely to be in audit rate could be positively effective for the mid-term while it could decrease in the long run. In other words, the tax audit reduces corruption in the long term. © 2015 Statistical Economic and Social Research and. All rights reserved.