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their own decision-making. This study considers the impact that religion has on decision-making and assesses the response of individuals regarding their willingness to cheat on taxes. Though an
initial survey suggests that individuals who are religious are more likely to reject the idea of cheating on their taxes, when both groups were provided with the option of cheating
on their taxes for a $5000 increase in their refund, religious people were as likely as others to make the change. INTRODUCTION One of the common beliefs in
the modern society is that there is a clear distinction between people of faith, people with specific religious affiliations, and those who do not have a religious underpinning, especially in
terms of moral behavior. In fact, sociologists have argued that religion can play a role in determining differences in ethical decision making in many different areas, including choices about
abortion, substance abuse, criminality and even acts of fraud. While people of faith argue that they are less likely to participate in behaviors that are considered unethical or immoral,
others would argue that people of faith simply do a better job of hiding their immorality. In the mid 1980s, the conviction of Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon on
tax fraud served to support the belief that religious leaders and people of faith are not exempt from immoral actions regarding money (Sciarrino, 1984). In the early 1990s, Praise
the Lord (PTL) ministries leader, Jim Bakker, was convicted of money laundering and tax evasion for his televangelist scams (Wilkinson, 1991). And in the late 1990s, African American Baptist
minister Henry Lyons was charged with racketeering, money laundering and tax evasion (Gibeaut, 1999). Though noted religious leaders, these individual people of faith demonstrated the same bad judgment as
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