La presente investigación se realizó en Monclova, Coah., en el año 2011 y tiene por objeto constituir una empresa holding para obtener beneficios fiscales sin caer en la evasión o elusión fiscal, esta alternativa permite controlar desde la cúspide a las demás empresas subsidiarias que han...

It is frequently argued that effective executive compensation should contain some performance-based remuneration. We lack, however, serious understanding of the characteristics of the many patterns of variable compensation in use. It is too often assumed that these different methods of...

When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). High taxes will favor firms who can finance internally. If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may thus change the investment behavior of firms. Using...

In this paper, I use difference-in-differences regressions to measure how the debt tax shield affects the capital structure of a company. By comparing the financial leverage of treatment and control companies before and after the introduction of an equity tax shield, I infer the impact of the...

In 2006, growth of total value added generated by Belgian non-financial corporations accelerated to reach 6.4 p.c. At the same time, operating costs rose by 5.5 p.c. So, for the fourth year in a row, value added rose faster than operating costs. As a consequence, net operating profit saw a...

This paper empirically analyzes whether both personal and corporate taxation have an influence on companies´ capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity financing on capital structure. Our empirical results, based on a panel of...

We examine whether variation in the separation of ownership and control influences the tax practices of private firms with different ownership structures. Fama and Jensen (1983) assert that when equity ownership and corporate decision-making are concentrated in just a small number of...

This paper studies the implications of the Swedish tax reform of 1994, by explicitly modeling some unusual features of the tax code such as the Annell deduction and the tax equalization reserve (SURV). The paper is about the effects of tax policy on corporate investment and financial structure....

Nordic corporations to a large extent both pay corporate tax and abstain from utilizing their depreciation allowances to the maximum extent possible. In this paper, we attempt to explain the empirical observation that most firms fails to maximize their tax usage. The model employed takes into...

This Paper analyses the interaction between corporate taxes and corporate governance. We show that the characteristics of a taxation system affect the extraction of private benefits by company insiders. A higher tax rate increases the amount of income insiders divert and thus worsens governance...