Abstract:

Generally, economic situation of the countries have been evaluated by using concrete data such as GDP, economic growing rate, production volume, level of employment and inflation or by making international comparisons. But, the evaluations made on the basis of such data or comparisons are sometimes unacceptable for the society. For example, although the economic situation of the country seems good according to the statistical data, the social perception can be opposite. This study is carried out with the assumption of sociology that is "perceived whatever is real" and in order to determine the situation of the Turkish economy from the perspectives of taxpayers. For this purpose, a face-to-face survey is conducted throughout Turkey. 36% of the surveyed taxpayers state that the Turkish economy is in bad or very bad condition. 33,2% of the surveyed taxpayers state that the Turkish economy is good or very good condition and 30,8% of surveyed taxpayers state that neither good nor bad condition. In the scope of the research, regression analyzes are also conducted in order to determine the factors that affect taxpayers' perceptions of Turkish economy. In the regression analysis, the economic situation of Turkey is accepted as a dependent variable. Independent variables are grouped into demographic, economic-fiscal, institutional and socio-cultural factors. According to the results of the analysis, the statistically meaningful relationship between Turkey's economic situation are gender, job, income level, level of satisfaction with public service, tax burden, tax pressure, tax rates, perception of corruption, trust of legislative, executive and judicial organs, perception of democracy, perception of transparency, religious commitment and citizenship

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