Findings of the GfK Custom Research international study on cheating
Deceiving people is not an option, according to two thirds of the respondents to a survey on cheating carried out in 19 countries by GfK Custom Research and commissioned by The Wall Street Journal Europe. Unlawful behavior when it comes to tax and business was considered a particular issue, with around three quarters of respondents identifying this as a major problem in their home countries.
Almost half of all respondents thought that more cheating goes on now than ten years ago, with a mere 10% believing that fraud levels have fallen. Where business is concerned, more than half those asked thought that more people are fiddling the books these days. There were disparities from country to country. A good 70% of Turks, Hungarians and Greeks believed that tax fraud and cheating in business was more common today, and the same percentage of respondents in these countries perceived a stronger tendency towards tax evasion. What is remarkable is that only just under a third of Dutch and 40% of Russians and Bulgarians thought that tax fraud had increased. Germany is somewhere in between, with a slim majority believing that there was more tax fraud now than ten years ago. A third of Germans thought there had been no change.
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