Countries around the world continue to tax corporate income at significant rates despite downward pressures from international competition. Average statutory corporate income tax rates fell from 46% in 1982 to 33% in 1999, though tax bases simultaneously broadened, as a result of which average...

This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

Recent legislation and standard interpretations promulgated by governmental bodies and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have attempted to address several issues related to corporate taxation. These issues include the lack of transparency regarding specific tax transactions, the...

Although USA is the largest economic powerhouse in the world, the future of US economy may depend on international competitiveness of US firms. Competitiveness of American firms will be influenced by many different factors, and my dissertation is focused on the tax policy and employee...

The article expresses the view that the current Internal Revenue Code has evolved into a hybrid income tax and consumption tax. It begins by explaining the difference between an income tax and a consumption tax and provides the backgrounds of the alternative forms of consumption tax: (1)...

This article discusses probably the most significant obstacle to the adoption of a consumption tax: the negative effects on existing wealth that the transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The Congressional Budget Office in its 1997 study posed the question,...

A flat rate comprehensive federal income tax could be achieved by replacing graduated rates with a single rate that applies to all taxpayers, eliminating many currently available deductions and credits, and treating as taxable income types of economic gain presently excluded from the tax base....

As a profit oriented company, management will endeavor to obtain the optimal profit, by minimizing the costs of existing, otherwise as a tax payer , corporate must implement the various obligations, one of them is pay income tax. Therefore, it is very crucial for companies to manage their tax...

This thesis proposes and evaluates the tax affinity hypothesis claiming that people derive utility from paying tax. Slutsky-like equations are derived for the unique three-good utility maximization problem with leisure as the only choice variable. There is evidence for the tax affinity...