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Optimal Tax Risk And Firm Value, Rebekah Daniele Mccarty
Optimal Tax Risk And Firm Value, Rebekah Daniele Mccarty
Doctoral Dissertations
I use the tax reserve data available from FIN 48 to investigate whether equity market value and tax risk exhibit a concave association, consistent with an optimal level of tax risk from an equity valuation standpoint. I find a concave association between tax risk and firm value which suggests firm value is increasing in tax risk at a diminishing rate until an optimal level is reached, after which firm value is decreasing in tax risk. I do not find evidence of excessive risk taking in the context of tax avoidance. Instead almost all firms in my sample are below the …