TAX PROGRESSIVITY AND CORPORATE INCENTIVES TO HEDGE
If a company faces some form of tax progressivity-that is, its marginal tax rate increases over the firm's expected range of reported taxable income-corporate hedging can reduce the firm's expected tax liability by reducing the volatility of pre-tax income. In a study described in this article, the authors used simulation methods to investigate the extent to which tax progressivity arises from various provisions of the tax code, such as the AMT and tax carryforwards and carrybacks. Based on their analysis of over 80,000 COMPUSTAT firm-year observations, the authors find that, in about 50% of the cases, corporations face effective tax functions that exhibit progressivity. The other 50% of cases are about evenly divided between firms that are tax neutral and those facing tax schedules that are "regressive" (again, over the relevant range of expected reported income). 2000 Morgan Stanley.
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2000
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Authors: | Graham, John R. ; Smith, Clifford W. |
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Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. - Morgan Stanley, ISSN 1078-1196. - Vol. 12.2000, 4, p. 102-111
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