This study aims to understand the role of tax education in taxpayer behaviour towards tax evasion.
Based on mixed methods, this research intends to explore the differences in the perceptions of
accountants and tax professionals and the general public of tax systems, tax avoidance knowledge
and tax evasion individual assessment. A survey for quantitative data was applied, gathering data
from 61 participants, and interviews were conducted with four participants for qualitative data
collection. Spearman's Correlations test was employed to measure the influence of tax avoidance
knowledge and tax system perception over tax evasion. The Kruskal–Wallis test was used to assess
whether the groups had differences in the perception of the taxation topic. The main results show
differences in the group responses, but the qualitative data could not corroborate. The same
ambiguity was found in the correlations of tax avoidance knowledge and tax evasion assessments,
which did allow the observation of the association between tax knowledge and tax evasion