We analyze survey responses from nearly 600 corporate tax executives to investigate firms' incentives and disincentives for tax planning. While many researchers hypothesize that reputational concerns affect the degree to which managers engage in tax planning, this hypothesis is difficult to test...

Introduction to tax strategy -- Tax law fundamentals -- Returns on alternative savings vehicles -- Choosing the optimal organizational form -- Implicit taxes and clienteles, arbitrage, restrictions, and frictions -- Nontax costs of tax planning -- The importance of marginal tax rates and dynamic...