Due to the implementation of international financial reporting standards in the European Union, member states with uniform accounting are expected to replace their current one-book system with a two-book system, which will separate tax accounting and financial accounting. This separation...

Although tax values of corporate assets and liabilities could provide useful information for various economic decisions, they are typically unknown to financial statement users. Additional corporate tax information has been repeatedly claimed. We analyse whether tax balance sheets can be...

For more than 50 years, researchers around the world have been searching for a solution to Blacks famous 'dividend-puzzle'. However, despite tremendous efforts in different fields of economics, the influence of taxation on the distribution policy of firms has remained elusive and is still...

Due to the implementation of international financial reporting standards in the European Union, member states with uniform accounting are expected to replace their current one-book system with a two-book system, which will separate tax accounting and financial accounting. This separation...

This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 tax reform in Germany on dividend announcement returns. With this major tax reform, the full imputation system was replaced by the half-income system, which had a significant impact on the relative taxation of dividends and capital gains for most...

[Einführung] In den Medien und der Öffentlichkeit werden internationale Steuervermeidung von Konzernen und Steuerhinterziehung im Allgemeinen lautstark diskutiert und durch prominente Einzelbeispiele von vorwiegend US-amerikanischen Konzernen 'anekdotisch' bewiesen. Dabei kann sogar ein...

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...

In this study we analyse stock price reactions to share buyback announcements from a tax perspective in Germany. To determine the influence of taxes on stock prices on the announcement day of share buybacks two different tax regimes - the corporate imputation system and the classical corporate...