We use a unique matched tax return-financial statement data set to examine the magnitude and sources of book-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite...

Obwohl steuerliche Wertansätze für ökonomische Entscheidungen eines breiten Adressatenkreises bedeutsam sein können, sind sie für externe Bilanzadressaten weitgehend unbekannt. So wäre beispielsweise im Bereich der betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerlehre die Durchführung empirischer Studien...

We use a unique matched tax return-financial statement data set to examine the magnitude and sources of book-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite...

Accountants, and to a lesser extent also (tax) lawyers, have been arguing for decades now on the content and practical consequences of the True and Fair View Principle. This papers tries to demonstrate that: i) True and Fair View is nothing different from what lawyers already know under...

This paper proposes an indicator of book-tax difference, based on the sum of the absolute amounts of permanent and timing differences. Using this, we first trace the development of book-tax differences over 18 years in seven major countries. We show that the indicator has grown almost...