This study examines whether firms' advantage from lower explicit taxes (tax management) is mitigated by lower pre-tax incomes (implicit taxes) and whether this advantage creates sustainable competitive advantage. We investigate a sample of firms with low explicit tax rates prior to the enactment...

We examine whether financial advisors with pre-advisor criminal records pose a greater risk to investors than those without. We find that financial advisors with pre-advisor criminal records are more likely to receive future customer complaints. Their complaints are more likely to receive...

We find that managers with military experience pursue less tax avoidance than other managers and pay an estimated $1–$2 million more in corporate taxes per firm-year. These managers also undertake less aggressive tax planning strategies with smaller tax reserves and fewer tax havens. Although...

Because so many multinational firms now use tax havens, researchers can move beyond using a simple dichotomous tax haven characteristic to identify tax-avoiding firms. Using recent advances in textual analysis proposed by Hoberg and Moon (2017, 2018), this paper uses the qualitative information...

Using a new measure of financial constraints based on firms' qualitative disclosures, we find that financially constrained firms — firms that use more negative words in their annual reports — pursue more aggressive tax planning strategies as evidenced by: (1) higher current and future...

As a direct response to the recent trend in corporate expatriations, politicians have questioned the patriotism of firms that reorganize outside the U.S. and introduced numerous legislative proposals designed to prevent corporate expatriations. The implicit assumption made in proposing this...