Who prepares your tax return? As part of a study on income tax compliance (Behavioral Research and
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Who prepares your tax return? As part of a study on income tax compliance (Behavioral Research and Accounting, January 2015), researchers sampled 270 adults at a shopping mall and asked each: “Who usually prepares your tax return?” Their answers (and frequency of responses) are shown in the table (p. 164). Use the information in the table to estimate the probability that a randomly selected adult uses a friend, relative, or professional to prepare his or her income tax return. Response Frequency You 100 Your spouse 16 Equally with spouse 7 Friend or relative 31 Professional help 114 Not required to file 2 TOTAL 270 Source: S. Bhattacharjee, K. Moreno, and D. Salbador, “The Impact of Multiple Tax Returns on Tax Compliance Behavior,” Behavioral Research and Accounting, Vol. 27, No. 1, January 2015 (from Table 1).
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Statistics For Business And Economics
ISBN: 9781292413396
14th Global Edition
Authors: James McClave, P. Benson, Terry Sincich