Despite the human capital in corporate tax departments representing the average firm's most direct and substantial investment in tax compliance and planning, our understanding of it is limited. Using employee movement between the tax departments of publicly-traded U.S. corporations, we shed...

Despite the human capital in corporate tax departments representing the average firm's most direct and substantial investment in tax compliance and planning, our understanding of it is limited. Using employee movement between the tax departments of publicly-traded U.S. corporations, we shed...

We examine the extent to which the labor market facilitates the diffusion of tax planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel dataset of tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, we find that firms experience an increase in their tax planning after hiring a tax employee from a...

We examine the extent to which the labor market facilitates the diffusion of tax planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel dataset of tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, we find that firms experience an increase in their tax planning after hiring a tax employee from a...