Regional autonomy in Indonesia is conducted by giving the rights, powers, and duty to the local government to
organize their own government in accordance with the legislation, including in terms of local goverment
financial management (PP No. 58/2005). Sources of financing in the regional autonomy is expected to be
dominated by local revenue. Therefore, through Law No. 33/2004 region's ability to obtain funds can be
enhanced by optimization of all potential local goverment which consists of local taxes, retribution, separated
wealth, and other local goverment revenue. However, the regional autonomy policy is not matched with financial
independence by each local government. The dstrict government has only average local revenues by 7% and
city government by 17.80%. Its mean, far away from the minimum limit the acquisition defined by the World
Bank amount 20%. If the minimum level of local revenue of less than 20%, its can be said that the local
government will be lose credibility as an independent entity (Riduansyah, 2003). Consequently, the local
goverment does not have the freedom to carry out the public service program in accordance priority needs of the
region. The low proportion of local revenues which are caused by the public do not trust to the use of taxes.
Lewis (1982) explained that public attitudes towards the government will determine the excitement paying taxes.
Legitimacy theory assumes that the financial statements as a document of the social, political, and economic
used as a tool to construct and legitimize the political and economic agreements for an institution (Guthrie and
Parker, 1990). Financial report is the media used by local governments to convince the public that the use of
public funds has been used in a transparent and accountable
A number of studies examine the determinants