Szándék és valóság - egy attitűdvizsgálat eredményei a rejtett gazdaságról = Intent and reality - result of a survey on the hidden economy

Abstract

The phenomenon of the hidden economy is not a new thing. The hidden economy appeared
in the past, when the first taxes were imposed. Since then there are people who
would like to avoid tax paying and it is not different even today. Despite of the fact that it
is the part of the human society quite a long time, it has been the focus of attention for 30
years (ÉKES, 1993). The topic is very actual. Recently the contries and governments
made decisions and took steps to reduce the size of the hidden economy.
The hidden economy is not a general topic, every people is interested in it and everbody
has opinion about it. In this research paper we try to investigate the attitude of the
hungarians in connection with the hidden economy, what they think about it, they know
exactly what kind of activities belong to it or not, how big the size of it, and what kind of
advantage and disadvantage has it.
To gather information about it we did a survey with a questionnaire among the hungarian
people. Among others we investigated what they think about the hidden economy, they
take part in it and in what way, how they judge the participants and most of all, what is
their attitude in connection with the hidden economy.