Corporate tax behavior has recently received considerable public interest, and anecdotal evidence suggests that firms are increasingly concerned about the reputational risk of tax planning. Using RepRisk data to capture firms’ reputational risk due to public scrutiny, this study examines the...

This study aims to identify & analyze the impact of tax planning, dividend policy & corporate ownership on the business cost of manufacturing companies in the food and beverage sub-sector traded on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for 2017-2020. The data collection uses secondary data from...

The public criticism of corporate tax planning that emerged in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis reflects a changing societal norm about corporate tax planning. While a growing body of research suggests that societal norms influence personal income tax decisions, more research is...

This study examines the role of auditors and monitoring banks in the tax aggressiveness of private firms. We use a unique data set of private SMEs in Finland where book-tax alignment is high and the auditing of private firms (exceeding a low threshold) is mandatory. We add to the existing...

Profit shifting by multinational corporations is thought to reduce tax revenue around the world. While transfer pricing regulations are meant to curtail profit shifting, there have been rising concerns that a sophisticated tax advisory industry can limit their effectiveness. This paper provides...

Profit shifting by multinational corporations is thought to reduce tax revenue around the world. While transfer pricing regulations are meant to curtail profit shifting, there have been rising concerns that a sophisticated tax advisory industry can limit their effectiveness. This paper provides...

Recent research has documented that industry concentration has increased significantly over the past 25 years, with potentially negative consequences for competition, productivity, and social welfare. Some have suggested that greater corporate tax planning by industry leaders, which can provide...

The study examined the impact of corporate governance on the relationship between tax planning and firm value. The data for the study was collected from 99 listed firms in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda from 2008 to 2021. The results showed that tax planning has a negative and statistically...

We examine the impact of corporate geographic location on tax planning in U.S. firms from 1996–2018. We find that urban firms are associated with a significantly lower level of aggressive tax planning than rural firms. Further analysis shows that the soft information advantage to investors and...

This study investigates the relation between personally tax aggressive executives and corporate regulatory violations across a wide range of areas. We identify personally tax aggressive executives as those who consistently make uncommonly well-timed corporate stock donations, which prior work...

This study aims to determine the effect of partial and simultaneous tax planning and profitability on equity. Tax planning and profitability are used as independent variables—Equity as a dependent variable. The population in this study is all companies in the consumer goods industry listed on...

In response to discussions about large multinational enterprises’ tax planning activities, legislators around the world have adopted numerous regulations to increase corporate tax transparency. New settings and datasets have spurred empirical research in recent years. Our paper presents a...

I investigate how investors value tax planning and tax uncertainty for the case of publicly listed German firms. I compare two recent approaches how to account for tax uncertainty: the separate view by Drake et al. (2019) and the composite view by Jacob and Schütt (2020) to find the better...

With regard to the supply of public goods, existing literature mainly focuses on the crowding out effect of public provision of public goods on private provision, while the adverse effect has been largely neglected. In this paper, building on the perspective of private provision's impact on...

We study the effects of corporate culture on tax planning. Using the competing value framework and natural language processing techniques, we quantify internally oriented corporate cultural dimensions of control and collaboration. We predict that these dimensions influence intraorganizational...

I present a model of tax planning in which the deductibility of the taxpayer’s transaction – if challenged – must be deliberated by the tax authority. Even when all facts are known, the outcome of a deliberation remains uncertain, and the only penalty that can be assessed when the tax...

This study uses a unique dataset that separates tax non-audit services (NAS) into tax planning and compliance NAS to examine how audit quality is affected by these two types of tax NAS. Our main results, which account for decisions to purchase and disclose the breakdown of tax NAS, show that...

Voluntary tax disclosure has become increasingly important in corporate sustainability reporting, particularly following new standards introduced by the Global Reporting Initiative combined with heightened public pressure and stakeholder demands. We examine tax aggressiveness and country...

This study examines the impact of auditors’ exposure to PCAOB inspection on their clients’ tax planning effectiveness. PCAOB inspections commonly scrutinize the auditing of income taxes. We posit that auditors’ tax-related knowledge increased in response to the onset of this scrutiny and...

The main objective of this article is to study the impact of CSR effect on tax aggression and its impact over Pakistani firm’ value. One important factor effecting tax aggressiveness is corporate social responsibility and its further impact on Pakistani firms value. 42 manufacturing firms...

Top executives of the parent company often take positions as the directors and officers (D&Os) of subsidiaries. These parent-subsidiary common D&Os have better access to subsidiary information and can exert more influence over subsidiary operations. Therefore they can better identify tax...

In this study, we utilize the setting of bank M&As to examine banks’ role in tax planning intermediation through helping their clients establish offshore tax haven operations. After a bank M&A, the clients of the target bank “involuntarily” switch to a significantly larger relationship...

Effective management of risk especially tax risk is arguably hinged on a framework of corporate governance that ensures amongst others that the board of directors is effective and efficient in delegating some of its roles and duties to well-structured committees, without relinquishing its...

This paper documents tax-minimizing investment, in which firms tilt capital purchases toward fiscal year-end to reduce taxes. Between 1984 and 2013, average investment in fiscal Q4 exceeds the average of fiscal Q1 through Q3 by 37%. Q4 spikes occur in the U.S. and internationally. Research...

We study how short-selling pressure affects tax aggressiveness using the pilot program on short sales in Regulation SHO. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that higher short-selling pressure significantly reduces tax aggressiveness. To explain the reduction, we offer a simple...

A study examined private companies’ tax aggressiveness and its changes in response to interventions by the tax administration. While scholars have researched authorities’ interventions extensively, this study was the first to consider the “light” technique of tax adjustments made by the...

This study provides empirical evidence on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and tax planning. In line with the reasoning of Davis et al.(2016) and Mao (2019), firms were divided into two groups based on the connection between their level of corporate social responsibility...

Technology is a necessary component of life and has an effect on it. The existence of technology has pushed the economy in a digital direction, which is continuing to grow. This trend is being felt across the economy, including the financial services sector. Fintech is one of the technological...

Tax planning, which has an important place in financial planning, is the systematic way of avoiding tax in accordance with the laws. In this process, R&D expenditures constitute a tax shield for firms to decrease their tax base. The purpose of this study is to examine whether tax planning...

To a large extent, the body of research that looks at individuals’ compliance with the law focuses on the dichotomy between compliance as rule-following and noncompliance as rule-breaking. However, a fascinating case of noncompliance is that where individuals selectively follow existing rules...

This paper discusses the harmful tax practices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the fight of international organizations against them. We focus on the anti-tax base erosion and profit shifting project (anti-BEPS project) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...

This paper investigatesthe effect of firms' internal digitalization on the performance of business support functions such as the tax department. We put forward a novel, micro-level IT sophistication index based on a survey monitoring European firms' digital infrastructure. Following the...