This study examines whether a firm's life cycle explains its propensity to engage in corporate tax avoidance. Based on the Dickinson (2011) model of firm life cycle stages and a large dataset of U.S. publicly listed firms over the 1987–2013 period, we find that tax avoidance is significantly...

This study examines the association between firm life cycle stages and corporate tax avoidance employing the Dickinson (2011) model of firms' life cycle stages. Based on a large dataset of U.S. publicly listed firms over the 1987–2013 period, we find that compared to the shake-out stage of a...