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This study analyzes the relation between accounting conservatism, future tax rate cuts and countries' level of book-tax conformity. Firms have an incentive to increase conservatism in financial reporting when a tax rate cut is imminent to shift taxable income into the lower taxed future. Using a...
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We examine if and when investors systematically respond to SEC comment letters focusing on comment letters that contain tax-related issues. Using a sample of more than 10,000 comment letters from the Audit Analytics' SEC Comment Letter Database, we identify comment letters related to tax issues....
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Empirical evidence suggests that there is substantial cross-firm variation in the extent of tax avoidance. However, this variation is not well understood. This paper provides a theoretical background for testing, and thus explaining, cross-firm differences in tax avoidance. We develop a formal...
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. These results are consistent with managers perceiving that non-disclosure of geographic earnings helps mask tax avoidance …
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. These results are consistent with managers perceiving that non-disclosure of geographic earnings helps mask tax avoidance …
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We quantify the degree of tax-induced earnings management associated with statutory tax rates and examine whether greater book-tax conformity alters this particular type of earnings management. We first validate a new empirical approach for examining tax-induced earnings management using...
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. All in all, our findings imply that law enforcement is very crucial for ASEAN countries to enhance managers' awareness of …
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This study provides evidence on a significant real consequence of an opaque financial reporting information environment: increased corporate tax avoidance. Using an international sample of firms, I find that firms with a more opaque information environment, as measured at both the firm and...
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importance and control for these benefits when studying tax avoidance. Further, our results challenge the theory that managers … managers' incentives to invest in tax avoidance schemes that facilitate rent extraction. The second explanation predicts that … avoidance in the context of agency problems should reconsider the validity of this theory …
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We examine how business strategic alignment between supply chain partners affects tax avoidance of suppliers with pure versus hybrid business strategies. Strategic alignment fosters mutual trust and facilitates the diffusion of tax knowledge between trading partners and their cooperation in tax...
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