This study investigates the influence of three interest groups—businesses, the tax profession, and civil society—on tax rules in the context of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. Our study is important as prior...

This paper investigates the influence of firms, the tax profession, and civil society on tax legislation in the context of the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project against international tax avoidance. Based on content analysis, we simultaneously study two lobbying levers that...

This study investigates the influence of three interest groups—businesses, the tax profession, and civil society—on tax rules in the context of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. Our study is important as prior...

This study examines how dimensions of culture influence variations in views about the link between corporate tax payments and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using textual analysis and a newly-developed set of keywords unique to a tax setting, we analyze 4,438 CSR reports from 24...

This research investigates the impact of corporate tax strategies (i.e., tax avoidance and non-avoidance) on consumers' corporate social responsibility (CSR) perceptions, willingness to pay (WTP), and attitude toward the firm in two laboratory experiments (n = 409) in the United States and...

Using the Luxembourg Leaks database, we study how multinational firms avoid taxes via hybrid arrangements and assess their corresponding tax benefits. Confidential tax rulings included in this database enable us to deduce and classify the tax arrangements that 123 firms implemented by means of...

This research examines spillover effects of tax avoidance on peers' firm value using the setting of the European Commission's state aid investigations of private letter rulings. We assume that news about a firm's tax avoidance strategies also reveals information about peers' tax avoidance...