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Factors Affecting Irs Audit Rate Probability: Empirical Evidence From Rgv Region, Issack Guyo
Factors Affecting Irs Audit Rate Probability: Empirical Evidence From Rgv Region, Issack Guyo
Theses and Dissertations
IRS tax audits are intended to curb tax evasion; however, they are costly to conduct and have negative impacts on taxpayers. The purpose of this study is to find out factors that lead to high IRS audit rate in a region from the perspective of the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Relationship between IRS tax audit rate and determinants of tax evasion identified by Davis, Cebula, & Boylan (2020) among others are studied. A regression analysis is conducted on the regions scores on poverty rate, demography, unemployment rate and general level of education with the IRS audit rate. The results suggest …
Corporate In-House Tax Departments, Xia Chen, Qiang Cheng, Travis Chow, Yanju Liu
Corporate In-House Tax Departments, Xia Chen, Qiang Cheng, Travis Chow, Yanju Liu
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
In-house human capital tax investment is a significant input to a firm's tax decisions. Yet, due to the lack of data on corporate in-house tax departments, there is little empirical evidence on how tax departments are associated with tax planning and compliance outcomes. We expect the size of tax departments to be positively associated with the effectiveness of tax planning and compliance. Using hand-collected data on the number of corporate tax employees in S&P 1500 firms over the 2009–2014 period, we find that firms with larger tax departments are associated with lower and less volatile cash effective tax rates. Furthermore, …
Securities Litigation And Corporate Tax Avoidance, Matteo Arena, Bin Wang, Rong Yang
Securities Litigation And Corporate Tax Avoidance, Matteo Arena, Bin Wang, Rong Yang
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
We examine whether litigation risk is systematically related to corporate tax avoidance. We find that the exogeneous reduction in the threat of securities class action litigation due to the 1999 ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals effectively increases corporate tax avoidance, which is consistent with the notion that the threat of shareholder litigation plays a disciplinary role in curbing managerial rent extraction from tax avoidance activities. This finding is robust to alternative model specifications including two placebo tests and propensity score matching. We further find that labor union and alternative external governance mechanisms such as analyst coverage and …