The internationalisation of financial accounting and the European Commission's ambition to harmonise corporate taxation have raised the question whether IFRS accounts could be used for tax purposes. In order to quantify the effect of an IFRS-based taxation on corporate tax burdens in different...

We examine how a comprehensive change in book-tax conformity affects firms' reporting behavior. To this end, we exploit a Reform Act as a quasi-natural experiment which implied a decrease in book-tax conformity in Germany in 2010. In particular, this reform allows firms to exercise tax...

Over the last decade, a large body of tax accounting literature on the association between book-tax conformity (BTC)/book-tax differences (BTD) and firms’ opportunistic reporting behavior has emerged. Yet, existing empirical evidence on the questions whether increased book-tax conformity...

We quantify the degree of tax-induced earnings management associated with statutory tax rates and examine whether greater book-tax conformity alters this particular type of earnings management. We first validate a new empirical approach for examining tax-induced earnings management using...

Obwohl steuerliche Wertansätze für ökonomische Entscheidungen eines breiten Adressatenkreises bedeutsam sein können, sind sie für externe Bilanzadressaten weitgehend unbekannt. So wäre beispielsweise im Bereich der betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerlehre die Durchführung empirischer Studien...

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis der handelsrechtlichen Gewinnermittlung zur steuerlichen Einkommensermittlung in Deutschland, Europa und den USA. Es werden die Zwecke der Rechenwerke diskutiert, sowie die Maßgeblichkeit der Handelsbilanz für die Steuerbilanz und deren...

We use a unique matched tax return-financial statement data set to examine the magnitude and sources of book-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite...