Survey Relation between Tax Avoidance and tax difference in listed Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange

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10.22034/iaar.2014.104328

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Tax income is one of the most effective factors that influence decisions and strategies of firms and decision makers. Previous literature and empirical results states that companies are trying to choose strategies that will result in tax savings. Also that conservatism and tax avoidance can be complementary or supplant tools for doing that action; empirical evidences show that these tools are used as supplants tools. With this in mind, a question arise that why firms do in that manner and try to be more conservatism. Results of examining 146 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange in the 2001 to 2011 by unbalanced Panel model and OLS, Shows that there is a positive and significant relation between tax avoidance and Tax difference between Government prepared Tax and Tax Expresses. In another words, the government is willing to request more tax from companies that do tax avoidance. In previous researches determined that there is no significant relation between conservatism and tax differences. Suffice to say that in basis of this research and previous ones, conservatism related to tax avoidance is a more effective tool for tax savings.

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Accounting and Auditing Research
Volume 6, Issue 24
January 2015
Pages 50-75

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