Wu, Liansheng; Wang, Yaping; Luo, Wei; Gillis, Paul - In: Accounting and Business Research 42 (2012) 2, pp. 97-114
Political cost theory and political power theory are two views on the effect of firm size on effective tax rate (ETR) in extant literature. The size effect of ETR can be investigated further by focusing on the relationship between firms and the government. This paper uses state ownership and tax...