Arbeitspapier
Tax avoidance and accounting conservatism
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 panel of firms across 18 countries from 1995 to 2010 I find that conditional conservatism is positively and significantly associated with future tax rate cuts when book-tax conformity is high. This effect is particularly pronounced for firms that concentrate the majority of their operations in the country in which the tax rate is cut. In contrast, there is no significant relation between future tax rate cuts and unconditional conservatism.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: arqus Discussion Paper ; No. 232
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
- Subject
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accounting conservatism
tax rate cuts
book-tax conformity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bornemann, Tobias
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus)
- (where)
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Berlin
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bornemann, Tobias
- Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus)
Time of origin
- 2018
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