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Abstract
Motivated by the case of Indonesia, this behavioural study applies theoretical and experimental
approaches to observe the determinants of compliance with environmental tax. The study is expected
to contribute to the environmental policy literature by examining the impact of financial reward and
bribery in combination, beside other conventional enforcement factors such as tax rate, audits and
fines. While theoretical analysis finds that compliance will decrease with tax rate and increase with
audit, fine, financial reward and the price of a bribe, the results of the experiment indicate that the
impact of each factor varies according to the presence of bribery. Despite the differences, both
approaches show that bribery encourages evasion as the tax rate increases and curbs the positive
impact of financial reward in enhancing compliance.