We examine whether income tax disclosures under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are useful for predicting changes in future earnings and cash flows, and whether such disclosures are more or less useful than disclosures made under U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles...

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...