This paper presents a new reconciliation of financial to taxable income, drawing from public financial statement and Schedule M-3 data for a panel of firms. The reconciliation compares the financial statement income of a firm’s consolidated financial statement entities to the financial...

This study examines the tax reporting consequences of financial reporting discretion. Using a matched sample of financial statements with tax returns, I provide estimates of the accuracy of tax return information inferred from financial statements. To examine the tradeoffs between financial and...