Is corporate tax avoidance related to employee treatment?

Externalities of Corporate Tax Avoidance

We show that when a meaningful proportion of firms in an economy engage in tax avoidance strategies, the covariance between a firm’s cash flow and the market cash flows increases, thereby increasing a firm’s cost of capital. This negative externality is imposed on all firms in the economy, not just tax-avoiding firms. The negative externality results regardless of the level of uncertainty assoc...

The Ranking of Effective Factors on Corporate Tax Avoidance

The Hierarchy of Effective Factors on Corporate Tax Avoidance Because of the information asymmetry within taxpayers and governments, commonly, the taxpayers try avoid the payment of tax. The problem can be explained by Agency theory. On the other hand, governmants try to maximize receiving tax by recognizing risky taxpayers and researchers try to recognize effective factors on tax avoidance. Th...

Tax Avoidance , Corporate Transparency , and Firm Value

Competition and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Chinese Industrial Firms*

This article investigates whether market competition enhances the incentives of Chinese industrial firms to avoid corporate income tax. We estimate the effects of competition on the relationship between firms reported accounting profits and their imputed profits based on the national income account. To cope with measurement errors and potential endogeneity, we use instrumental variables, exogen...

Thematic Section The Social Irresponsibility of Corporate Tax Avoidance: Taking CSR to the bottom line

JOHN CHRISTENSEN AND RICHARD MURPHY ABSTRACT Tax revenues are the lifeblood of democratic government and the social contract, but the majority of multinational businesses have been structured so as to enable tax avoidance in every jurisdiction in which they operate. John Christensen and Richard Murphy of the tax justice network argue that policy measures are required to redress the distortions ...