We examine the shareholder response to heightened regulation of corporate tax planning advice through the covered opinions rules under U.S. Treasury Department Circular No. 230. These rules imposed extensive due diligence obligations and drafting requirements on tax professionals for a broad...

Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...

This paper examines the impact of corporate taxes on firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR), by exploiting the staggered changes in corporate taxes across U.S. states as a quasi-natural experiment. Firms enhance CSR performance significantly following tax cuts, but they do not reduce CSR...

Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...

'Every man is entitled if he can to order his affairs so that the tax attaching under the appropriate Acts is less than it otherwise would be.' These words of Lord Tomlin in Duke of Westminster can be attributed as a pivotal ground for various amendments in the fiscal laws as the ingenuity of...

This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate...

Using a novel empirical approach and newly available administrative data on US tax filings, we estimate the corporate elasticity of taxable income and determine how such tax responsiveness varies depending on accounting method, firm size, and interest rate. In response to a 10 percent increase...

[enter Abstract Body]This study is motivated by the cross-sectional differences in the willingness of firms to minimize tax based on their financial structure. We investigate whether ”financially constrained” firms increase tax aggressiveness compared to it’s immediate ”less...

In this research article, we attempt to find a more widely available metric for Corporate Social Responsibility. As taxes are used to fund public goods and services, the payment by a company of more taxes will result in more funds to support the public – these actions can be viewed as a...