Using a new hand-collected database on state department of revenue (DOR) expenditures, this study examines the association between changes in state corporate tax enforcement expenditures and state-level tax collections during the 2000-2008 time period. The results, after addressing endogeneity...

We examine whether firms use tax reserve decreases to meet analysts’ quarterly earnings forecasts in the period prior to the passage of FIN 48 and whether that behavior changed following the enactment of FIN 48. In the pre-FIN 48 period, we observe that firms reduce their tax reserves (i.e.,...