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Income Tax Policy and Charitable Giving
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Income Tax Policy and Charitable Giving." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 599–612.
- November 2006
- Background Note
U.S. Taxation of Foreign-Source Corporate Income
By: Henry B. Reiling
Identifies several of the problems and policy choices associated with taxing foreign-source income. Examples are given of the practical after-tax effects of the major alternatives. Foreign tax credit and "tax haven" based business activities receive special attention.... View Details
Reiling, Henry B. "U.S. Taxation of Foreign-Source Corporate Income." Harvard Business School Background Note 207-085, November 2006.
- 29 Sep 2011
- News
The myth of corporate tax reform
- 07 Mar 2016
- News
The Trump-Obama Corporate Tax Reform Fail
- 04 Oct 2012
- News
A recipe for cutting corporate taxes
- 2015
- Working Paper
Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya M. Perez-Silva
We demonstrate that executives’ personal financial preferences impact both layers of shareholder taxes, corporate taxes and corporate payouts. We reconstruct executives’ insider equity portfolios to quantify their personal incentives and analyze stock sales that reveal... View Details
Keywords: Executives; Capital Gain; Dividends; Effective Tax Rate; Tax Avoidance; Taxation; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations
Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, and Andreya M. Perez-Silva. "Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-034, September 2015.
- December 1996
- Article
New IAS Standard: Accounting for Income Taxes
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "New IAS Standard: Accounting for Income Taxes." Accounting Bulletin, no. 44 (December 1996).
- 2003
- Article
The Divergence Between Book and Tax Income
By: Mihir A. Desai
Keywords: Taxation
Desai, Mihir A. "The Divergence Between Book and Tax Income." Tax Policy and the Economy 17 (2003): 169–206. (Issue edited by James M. Poterba. This paper is a revision of NBER Working Paper 8866, entitled The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation. [For a profile of this research from The New York Times, see here. For a profile of this research from The Economist, see here.].)
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- March 1993 (Revised November 1993)
- Teaching Note
Taxing Situations: Two Cases on Income Taxes and Financial Reporting TN
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-191-071). View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
U.S. Corporate Tax System Stifling Growth
- Research Summary
The Corporate Governance Role of Taxes
Dyck introduces evidence that private benefits of control are higher in countries with poor tax enforcement and in ongoing work explores further this correlation using both theory and empirical work from the United States and Russia. This work illustrates that the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
A Better Path to Corporate Tax Reform
- March 6, 2006
- Article
Taxing Corporate Capital Gains
By: Mihir A. Desai
Desai, Mihir A. "Taxing Corporate Capital Gains." Tax Notes 110 (March 6, 2006): 1079–1092.
Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits
This background note explores the basic themes surrounding the government's approach to providing housing: namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private... View Details
- 20 Jan 2013
- News
How to slash the US corporate tax rate
- 26 Dec 2017
- News
Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Studies links institutional investing to corporate tax avoidance
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
corporate profits earned in countries with effective corporate tax rates, on average, of 20 percent or higher. These countries include England, France, and Japan. (This... View Details
- March 2009
- Article
Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment
By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
This paper reviews recent evidence analyzing the link between earnings management and corporate tax avoidance and considers the implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to... View Details
Desai, Mihir, and Dhammika Dharmapala. "Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment." National Tax Journal 62, no. 1 (March 2009): 169–186.