Income Tax Progressivity and Nonreligion in Central and Eastern Europe: A Case of the Czech Republic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13040358" target="_blank" >10.3390/rel13040358</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Income Tax Progressivity and Nonreligion in Central and Eastern Europe: A Case of the Czech Republic
Original language description
Our paper focuses on the tax progressivity and nonreligion in central and eastern Europe using an example of the Czech Republic, one of the most atheistic countries in the world. Religion might imply formal affiliation with a certain confession or active church attendance, but it might also become a determinant of taxation preferences. We employ ordinal regression analyses to study direct and mediation effects of both church affiliation and church attendance on a representative sample from the Czech Republic controlling for employment status, social class and sociodemographics. The results suggest that neither church affiliation nor church attendance were related to desired income tax progressivity, social class plaid the most important role. The frequency of church attendance was significantly related to the perceived adequacy of taxation of higher incomes, where the more respondents attended the religious services, the more they believed that the taxes on the rich are too high. However, the churche
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Religions
ISSN
2077-1444
e-ISSN
2077-1444
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1-15
UT code for WoS article
000786087000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85129167959