This study investigates the circumstances under which "enhanced relationship" tax compliance programs are mutually beneficial to taxpayers and tax authorities, as well as how these benefits are shared. We develop a model of tax authority and taxpayer behavior inside and outside of an enhanced...

This study investigates the circumstances under which “enhanced relationship” tax compliance programs are mutually beneficial to taxpayers and tax authorities, as well as how these benefits are shared. We develop a model of taxpayer and revenue authority behavior inside and outside of an...

We characterize the effects of different methods of taxing multinational income on productive efficiency in a competitive equilibrium. The efficient outcome is achieved when every firm that produces and sells domestically faces the same tax rate as a multinational firm selling into the same...

This paper develops a model of a firm's foreign investment decisions and characterizes its optimal investment and repatriation strategies. It then derives the theoretical relation between firm value and the book value of the deferred tax liability associated with such investments or, if no...

We examine a firm's corporate governance choices within a competitive environment. A firm can choose a passive board that delegates decision rights to the executive manager, or an active board that retains these rights. We characterize the equilibrium governance choices and find that there...

Profits a tax-exempt organization earns from business activities that are not related to the organization's exempt purpose are subject to the unrelated business income tax (UBIT). This paper shows that when the taxable and tax-exempt activities are substitutes, taxable income exceeds the...

The revised Treasury Regulations interpreting Internal Revenue Code Section 482 allow the use of profit-based transfer pricing methods, as well as the older methods based on prices from comparable transactions between independent parties. This paper compares the effects of price-based and...

The new Treasury Regulations interpreting Section 482 allow the use of profit-based transfer pricing methods, as well as the older methods based on market prices and gross margins. This paper examines the effects of the Regulations in a model in which organization structure affects the level of...

Using a model of corporate investment in which the deferred tax liability never reverses, I show that deferred taxes are a real economic burden whose value is the amount recognized multiplied by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the tax depreciation rate, and the denominator of the...

Loss firms are an economically significant and growing segment of the population of publicly traded corporations. Relatively little is known about the tax positions of loss firms because they are typically dropped from tax avoidance studies. We develop a new measure of corporate cash tax...