Income Tax Cut and Firm Tax Avoidance
Abstract
This study aims to examine the impact of Indonesian corporate income tax rate reduction on public companies’ tax avoidance. This study utilizes a quasi-experimental design with the difference-in-differences (DID) method to isolate the effect of corporate income tax rates changes on corporate tax avoidance behavior. Firms’ ownership structure is used to separate firms that are more likely to be affected by the tax law changes, thus representing the treatment group in the DID setting. Utilizing a sample of public companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2019 and 2020 periods, this study finds that in the year preceding the tax rate reduction, firms with greater institutional ownership exercise higher tax avoidance compared to other firms. The differences, however, are not statistically significant, which may be caused by the short timespan between the policy announcement and tax filing period, limiting the time available for firms to adjust their tax avoidance behavior.
Keywords: Tax Cut, Tax Avoidance, Institutional Investor
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Henry, E., & Sansing, R. (2020). CORPORATE TAX PREFERENCES BEFORE AND AFTER THE TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT OF 2017. National Tax Journal, 73(4), 1065–1086. https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2020.4.07
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Salam, N. F., & Rahim, S. (2016). Pengaruh Ketentuan Tarif Pajak Badan, Ketepatan Pemanfaatan Pajak dan Sanksi Pajak Terhadap Penggelapan Pajak. Assets: Jurnal Ekonomi, Manajemen Dan Akuntansi, 6(1), 126–137.
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St. Clair, T., & Cook, T. D. (2015). DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES METHODS IN PUBLIC FINANCE. National Tax Journal, 68(2), 319–338. https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2015.2.04
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Wang, F., Xu, S., Sun, J., & Cullinan, C. P. (2020). Corporate tax avoidance: A literature review and research agenda. Journal of Economic Surveys, 34(4), 793–811.
Wilde, J. H., & Wilson, R. J. (2018). Perspectives on corporate tax planning: Observations from the past decade. The Journal of the American Taxation Association, 40(2), 63–81.
Yaniv, G. (2013). Tax Evasion, Conspicuous Consumption, and the Income Tax Rate. Public Finance Review, 41(3), 302–316. https://doi.org/10.1177/1091142112465544
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2023-09-30
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SAPUTRA, Ruri; YULIANTI, Yulianti.
Income Tax Cut and Firm Tax Avoidance.
E-Jurnal Akuntansi, [S.l.], v. 33, n. 9, p. 2407-2420, sep. 2023.
ISSN 2302-8556.
Available at: <https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/akuntansi/article/view/101386>. Date accessed: 09 may 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.24843/EJA.2023.v33.i09.p12.
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