FEATURES OF ACCOUNTING OF RENTAL OPERATIONS: ACCOUNTING AND TAX ASPECTS

Income Tax Accounting under the Tax Consolidation System

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Investment, Accounting, and the Salience of the Corporate Income Tax

This paper develops the argument that accounting rules make the corporate income tax less salient and less distortionary by obscuring the timing of tax payments. I develop and estimate a model of investment where firms maximize a discounted weighted average of after-tax cash flows and accounting profits. The cost of capital, the tax wedge on the return on capital, and the impact of tax incentiv...

Accounting History and Accounting Progress

A. C. Littleton famously described accounting as “relative and progressive”. However, in recent historical accounting research, there has been increasing hesitation in describing accounting as “progressing”. This is largely because “progress” implies a degree not only of change but also of improvement, and historical accounting researchers, influenced by social science conventions, often regard...

International Lease Accounting and Tax Consequences: The Hong Kong Perspective

Features of VAT Accounting and Fiscality – History, Practices and Prospects

The value-added tax (VAT) is an indirect tax, supported by the final consumer of the good/service that it is applied. During the productive and commercial cycle, the companies pay VAT according to the value added on the good/service. Quite recently appeared in the fiscal system of different states, VAT has a big spreading area. The taxation rates are different from a country to another, accordi...