The effect of shareholder scrutiny on corporate tax behavior: Evidence from shareholder tax litigation

被引:4
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作者
Donelson, Dain C. [1 ]
Glenn, Jennifer L. [2 ]
Mcguire, Sean T. [3 ]
Yust, Christopher G. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
[2] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH USA
[3] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
关键词
agency costs; spillover; tax avoidance; tax litigation; couts d'agence; evitement fiscal; litige fiscal; retombees; REPUTATIONAL COSTS; EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS; AVOIDANCE EVIDENCE; MERITS MATTER; FIRMS; INCENTIVES; DIRECTORS; LAWSUITS; RISK; AGGRESSIVENESS;
D O I
10.1111/1911-3846.12913
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
This study examines the effect of shareholder scrutiny of corporate tax avoidance behavior and its related financial reporting. Specifically, we explore the factors associated with shareholder tax litigation and its effect on the future tax behavior of the sued firm and its peers. We find that sued firms have lower cash and GAAP effective tax rates (ETRs) and engage in extreme tax avoidance before litigation. After litigation, they decrease tax avoidance activities, relative to matched control firms. Peer firms in the same industry as sued firms similarly reduce their level of tax avoidance and the likelihood of extreme tax avoidance after the litigation, relative to control firms. Additional analyses suggest that sued firms change their tax avoidance behavior, rather than merely their tax financial reporting. Finally, the spillover results are strongest for peer firms with the most tax avoidance (i.e., the lowest cash ETRs) when the sued firm's alleged misconduct is revealed. L'effet du controle exerce par les actionnaires sur le comportement fiscal des entreprises : donnees issues de litiges fiscaux impliquant des actionnairesCette etude examine l'effet du controle exerce par les actionnaires sur le comportement d'evitement fiscal des entreprises et sur l'information financiere qui en decoule. Plus precisement, les auteurs analysent les facteurs associes aux litiges fiscaux impliquant des actionnaires et leur effet sur le comportement fiscal ulterieur de la societe poursuivie en justice et de ses pairs. Ils constatent que les societes faisant l'objet d'une poursuite ont des taux effectifs d'imposition (TEI) plus faibles en matiere de tresorerie et de PCGR et qu'elles s'adonnent a des pratiques d'evitement fiscal extreme avant le litige. Apres le proces, elles reduisent leurs activites d'evitement fiscal par rapport aux societes de controle appariees. Les societes paires du meme secteur que les societes poursuivies en justice reduisent aussi leur niveau d'evitement fiscal et la probabilite d'un evitement fiscal extreme apres le litige, par rapport aux societes de controle appariees. Des analyses complementaires suggerent que les societes faisant l'objet d'une poursuite modifient leur comportement d'evitement fiscal, plutot que de simplement modifier leur information fiscale et financiere. Enfin, les resultats montrent que les retombees sont les plus importantes pour les societes paires qui evitent le plus l'impot (c.-a-d. les TEI les plus faibles en tresorerie) lorsque l'inconduite presumee de la societe faisant l'objet d'une poursuite est revelee.
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页码:163 / 194
页数:32
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