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Record W4407796746 · doi:10.4236/ti.2025.161003

Religiosity: Mediator of Tax Knowledge and Tax Compliance among Small Business Enterprises (SBEs)

2025· article· en· W4407796746 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Francis Tamale, Violah Mpangwire, Laura Orobia, Benjamin Musiita, Thomas Kisaalita, Brian Ssembatya, Kalimu Ndaazano, Brenda Kabasinguzi, Richard Mwesige

Bibliographic record

VenueTechnology and Investment · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicTaxation and Compliance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReligiosityCompliance (psychology)BusinessMediatorPublic economicsAccountingEconomicsPsychologyMedicineSocial psychology

Abstract

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This study uses data from small business enterprises (SBEs) in a developing African economy to investigate the role of mediating religiosity in the link between tax Knowledge and tax compliance. This study used closed-ended questionnaires and a quantitative research design. This study employed a cross-sectional and correlational approach. A total of 283 SBE managers provided usable questionnaires, and SPSS v23 and the MedGraph application (Excel version) were used to analyze the data. Religion acts as a partial mediating factor in the relationship between tax compliance and tax knowledge. The results also indicate a strong relationship between tax compliance, tax awareness, and religiosity. Only one methodological research procedure was used, and triangulation may be attempted in future interviews. Furthermore, the results of this study were cross-sectional. More research should be conducted to assess the mediating effects examined in this study over time. A valid interpretation of the correlations between research variables always requires an analysis of the involvement of a third variable (religiosity) in the connection. This enables specialists and researchers to comprehend and reach valid conclusions and selections that might aid in improving tax compliance. Despite the abundance of research on tax compliance, this study uses SBE findings from Uganda, a developing economy in Africa, to provide the first empirical evidence of the mediating role of religiosity in the relationship between tax awareness and tax compliance.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.265
Threshold uncertainty score0.503

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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