This paper re-examines whether auditor-provided tax services (APTS) are associated with better or worse audit quality. While some believe that one accounting firm providing both audit and tax services to a client improves audit quality through knowledge spillover, others are concerned that...

In 2002 more than 18 million low-income individual taxpayers received the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Despite its size, non-participation in this program is a concern and substantial effort is devoted by the IRS, local governments and many non-profits to address it. Most of the tax returns...

This study introduces and tests the applicability of a signal for individual tax reporting aggressiveness using German income tax return data. Tax aggressiveness is often defined as dealing with uncertainty - or more precisely: ambiguity - in an exploitative manner. In other words, firms and...