Arbeitspapier

Corporate Social Responsibility and Tax Avoidance

We theoretically analyse the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance of an oligopolistic firm. The firm maximises a weighted sum of profits and a CSR objective which depends on output and the firm's contribution to public good provision, i.e. tax payments. Making one CSR element more important induces the firm to adhere less to the other and to reduce tax avoidance. Hence, simultaneously a substitutive and a complementary relationship between CSR and tax avoidance can be observed. Therefore, employing composite indicators of CSR prevents an empirical identification of this linkage. Moreover, if tax avoidance declines, CSR activities will increase. Consequently, the overall link between CSR and tax avoidance is theoretically ambiguous.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7297

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
Thema
corporate social responsibility
public good
oligopoly
output
tax avoidance

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Goerke, Laszlo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2018

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Goerke, Laszlo
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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