The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) launched its project to address base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) in 2013 with an Action Plan of 15 Actions. Action 1 encompasses identifying difficulties the digital economy poses for applying existing international tax...

Theory and recent empirical literature suggest that social and professional connections may influence corporate policy. However, inference may be biased by the possibility that firms who share peers also share unobserved characteristics that are correlated with observed policy. Using a novel...

Policy tools that potentially foster efficient levels of health and safety are regulation, litigation, and taxation. Most U.S. regulatory agencies set standards that are more stringent than the efficient level of safety. As a result, there is strong justification for a regulatory compliance...

This study explores the philosophical and theoretical bases underlying U.S. tax and social policy for over 25 years in order to develop a comprehensive framework from which to evaluate the intended and actual effects on wealth distribution and social policy overall. The framework provides a...

Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments to general government. They are unreciprocated in the sense that benefits provided by government to taxpayers are not normally in proportion to their payments. This study is set out to is to investigate the effect of Tax Justice and the Informal Taxation...

We examine whether companies voluntarily disclose additional information about tax loss carryforwards when the recoverability is more uncertain. With this study, we aim to explain part of the huge cross-sectional variation in the tax footnote. To assess disclosure behavior, we hand-collect data...

Over the past two decades, most tax research has focused on examining the level of firms' effective tax rates (ETRs) (i.e., tax avoidance or tax minimization); limited attention has been paid to other aspects of tax strategies. However, relatively few firms pay exceedingly low taxes, which has...

This study develops and validates an ex-ante measure of firm-specific overall tax risk. We define tax risk as the potential that current actions or activities, or the failure to take actions or pursue activities, will lead to future tax outcomes that are different from expectations. Tax risk...

The Last in First out Method (LIFO) is presently under severe scrutiny from the financial community which may soon culminate in its repeal as an acceptable accounting method. There are pressures from the SEC in conjunction with the International Financial Accounting Standards Board to...

The article aims to analyze the effects of the Brazilian Simplified Tax Regime (Simples Nacional) on the longevity of manufacturing microenterprises, contributing to the current debate on the expansion of the program. Based on the RAIS (Relação Anual de Informações Sociais) microdata...