Using data from a survey of tax executives, we examine the corporate response to the one-time dividends received deduction in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. We describe the firms’ reported sources and uses of the cash repatriated and we also examine non-tax costs companies incurred to...

In this paper I review and describe the income tax disclosures currently required in firms’ financial statements. I discuss many of the problems with trying to estimate a firm’s actual tax liabilities and taxable income from the income tax expense and disclosures to the financial statements....

This paper examines the implications for multinational firms of recent proposals to conform tax and financial reporting (i.e., book–tax conformity). Proponents of book–tax conformity argue that the current dual system in the U.S. allows firms to simultaneously manage their taxable income...