Özet:

In a political system dominated by democracy, voter has an important role in determining the government. Voter preferences are influenced by many factors while voter is at the point of determining the political power. Economic factors, as well as sociological and psychological factors that influence voter preference, have incontrovertible role. In shaping political preferences and voting behavior taxes are important alongside the other economic factors. One of the instruments used by political actors to influence voter preferences, tax policy has an important role especially during the election period. This study was conducted to find out the level of the taxes on the preferences of voters. According to the findings obtained from the survey which was applied 445 voters in Sakarya province, taxes have influence on voter preferences. It was also found that voters are sensitive to tax policy. On the other hand, it was found that the economic success of political parties, the political agenda in the country, and the voters’ political ideologies are effective on the voter preferences as well as tax policy. 

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