2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance

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spelling 15911 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=15911 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Business and Management English application/pdf 1.5 Server storage Scanned document Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin UniSZA Private Access Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) Copyright©PWB2025 252 Environmental psychology 2020-10-18 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AWARENESS, COMPLIANCE COST, BIOPHILIC ATTITUDE AND FINANCIAL STABILITY ON ENVIRONMENTAL TAX COMPLIANCE (PHD_2020).pdf Juhaida Bt Abd Ghani Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude And Financial Stability Environmental Tax Compliance Environmental impact charges Taxpayer compliance Financial stability Environmental law—Economic aspects 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance Environmental taxation is not that familiar among Malaysians as there are no exact charges being recognized as environmental tax imposed in Malaysia. The closest imposed tax which can be associated with environmental tax is petroleum income tax under Petroleum Income Tax Act 1967. Other charges such as quit rent, toll charge, entrance fee, parking, and many more, were imposed to maintain and conserve the environment. Although the government has introduced many campaigns and promotions to protect the environment, data on environmental pollution and degradation in Malaysia still show fluctuation and do not fulfil the Malaysian environment quality standards. Research by EU High Level Groups of Experts on Literacy (2012) revealed that lack of awareness contributes to negative perception and affects negatively on compliance behaviour. This study examines the role of awareness and compliance cost on environmental tax compliance behaviour by introducing the economic affluence and naturalistic behaviour of the tourists. This study instigates that financial strength and natural feeling (Biophilic attitude) towards the environment would influence the positive behaviour towards environmental tax compliance. This is a quantitative approach study with the use of self administered questionnaire distributed randomly to approximately 400 local tourists in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by focusing on tourists at the natural/environmental based tourism spots such as islands, zoos and forest reserve parks. The data were analysed using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 23 and Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS) 3 for data screening, Confirmation Factor Analysis (CFA), Multigroup Analysis (MGA) and descriptive analysis. This study shows that low awareness contributes to low environmental tax compliance among tourists. Although Biophilic attitude or natural feeling towards the environment alone affects positively on the level of environmental tax compliance, the result is not significant enough to moderate the relationship between awareness and environmental tax compliance. Financial stability, on the other hand, does not influence the level of compliance either directly or as a moderating variable. This study provides insights on the importance of awareness on environmental tax compliance. While other factors appear significant in other studies outside Malaysia, this study finds only awareness, with all its dimensions, affects the level of environmental tax compliance. For future study, it is recommended that other new tax compliance factors are explored in improving the level of environmental tax compliance. Dissertations, Academic Sila masukkan subject wajib Dissertations, Academic. Terima kasih... Thesis
spellingShingle 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance
state Terengganu
subject Environmental psychology
Environmental impact charges
Taxpayer compliance
Financial stability
Environmental law—Economic aspects
Dissertations, Academic
summary Environmental taxation is not that familiar among Malaysians as there are no exact charges being recognized as environmental tax imposed in Malaysia. The closest imposed tax which can be associated with environmental tax is petroleum income tax under Petroleum Income Tax Act 1967. Other charges such as quit rent, toll charge, entrance fee, parking, and many more, were imposed to maintain and conserve the environment. Although the government has introduced many campaigns and promotions to protect the environment, data on environmental pollution and degradation in Malaysia still show fluctuation and do not fulfil the Malaysian environment quality standards. Research by EU High Level Groups of Experts on Literacy (2012) revealed that lack of awareness contributes to negative perception and affects negatively on compliance behaviour. This study examines the role of awareness and compliance cost on environmental tax compliance behaviour by introducing the economic affluence and naturalistic behaviour of the tourists. This study instigates that financial strength and natural feeling (Biophilic attitude) towards the environment would influence the positive behaviour towards environmental tax compliance. This is a quantitative approach study with the use of self administered questionnaire distributed randomly to approximately 400 local tourists in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by focusing on tourists at the natural/environmental based tourism spots such as islands, zoos and forest reserve parks. The data were analysed using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 23 and Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS) 3 for data screening, Confirmation Factor Analysis (CFA), Multigroup Analysis (MGA) and descriptive analysis. This study shows that low awareness contributes to low environmental tax compliance among tourists. Although Biophilic attitude or natural feeling towards the environment alone affects positively on the level of environmental tax compliance, the result is not significant enough to moderate the relationship between awareness and environmental tax compliance. Financial stability, on the other hand, does not influence the level of compliance either directly or as a moderating variable. This study provides insights on the importance of awareness on environmental tax compliance. While other factors appear significant in other studies outside Malaysia, this study finds only awareness, with all its dimensions, affects the level of environmental tax compliance. For future study, it is recommended that other new tax compliance factors are explored in improving the level of environmental tax compliance.
title 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance
title_full 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance
title_fullStr 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance
title_full_unstemmed 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance
title_short 2020_The Relationship Between Awareness, Compliance Cost, Biophilic Attitude and Financial Stability on Environmental Tax Compliance
title_sort 2020_the relationship between awareness, compliance cost, biophilic attitude and financial stability on environmental tax compliance