This paper analyzes the effects of disclosing corporate tax reports on both financial markets' performance and tax revenue. To this end, we characterize the optimal auditing policy of the tax enforcement agency and the optimal tax reporting strategy of a fi rm. The manager of the fi rm has the...

This paper takes advantage of a rich firm level data set from Ecuador to analyze the effects of a reform in 2007 that introduced imprisonment for tax evasion and made a firm's CFO liable for tax-crimes. Our dataset contains actual tax-return and financial-statement for the universe of...

Using the 2008 corporate tax reform in China as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that compared to unaffected firms, firms facing tax increases report significantly lower profit margins to avoid paying more taxes, while there is no significant difference for firms facing a tax cut. Our results...