scholarly journals The relationship between tax avoidance, company characteristics and corporate governance: Evidence from Greece

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Evangelos Chytis ◽  
Stergios Tasios ◽  
Ioannis Georgopoulos ◽  
Zois Hortis

The purpose of this paper is to research a possible relationship between corporate tax avoidance with corporate governance characteristics such as board independence, the type of auditing company and the concentration of ownership, and a range of selected financial indicators such as return on capital employed, liquidity, leverage, and company size. For this reason, the analysis was based on quantitative and qualitative data derived from the annual financial reports from a sample of 56 companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange covering the period 2011 to 2015. As a measure of tax avoidance, the cash effective tax rate was used, while a linear regression model using the random effect method was estimated in order to examine the factors that affect it. The results of the study show that the cash effective tax rate has a statistically significant positive relationship with company size and a significant negative relationship with return on capital employed. All in all, the research shows that Greek large-sized companies show less tax avoidance, whereas in companies with a high return on capital employed the extent of tax avoidance is higher. There was no statistically significant impact of corporate governance variables on tax avoidance.

Owner ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 525-535
Author(s):  
Salma Mustika Ainniyya ◽  
Ati Sumiati ◽  
Santi Susanti

Tax Avoidance is an act to avoid taxes by companies that can reduce tax revenue for the state. This study aims to examine the effect of Leverage, Sales Growth, and Company Size on Tax Avoidance. Population in this study were all companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2018 – 2019 period. Purposive sampling used as sampling technique and obtained 219 companies as samples. This study used quantitative method and the analysis was multiple linear regression analysis. Tax Avoidance proxied by Effective Tax Rate which have a negative interpretation of Tax Avoidance. The result of t test shows that Leverage has a significant effect on Tax Avoidance, positive relationship between Debt to Equity Ratio as proxy for Leverage and Effective Tax Rateas proxy for Tax Avoidance explains that the higher the Leverage, the lower the Tax Avoidance. Sales Growth has a significant effect on Tax Avoidance, negative relationship between sales growth and Effective Tax Rate explains that the higher the Sales Growth, the higher the Tax Avoidance. While Company Size has no significant effect on Tax Avoidance, bigger or smaller the Company Size will not have any effect on Tax Avoidance. The f test shows that Leverage, Sales Growth, and Company Size simultaneously have a significant effect on Tax Avoidance. Result of adjusted R square shows that the effect of Leverage, Sales Growth, and Company Size on Tax Avoidance is 0,072 or 7,2%.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Aminah Aminah ◽  
Chairina Chairina ◽  
Yohana Yustika Sari

<p><em>This study examines the influence of company size, fixed assets intensity, leverage, profitability and political connections against tax avoidance in manufacturing companies listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange in the period of 2011-2015.</em></p><p><em>This study forms an associative research. The population used in this study are manufacturing companies listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange. The sample used as many as 53 manufacturing companies listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange in the period of 2011-2015 that are selected with the purposive sampling method, and so the number of sample data is 265 data. Tax Avoidance in this study was measured using the cash effective tax rate (CETR). Data can be analyzed by using the logistic regression.</em></p><p><em>The result showed that the profitability and political connections have influences to tax avoidance. While company size, intensity fixed assets and leverage do not influence tax avoidance.</em><em></em></p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Company Size, Intensity Fixed Assets, Leverage, Profitability, Political Connections, Tax Avoidance</em><em> </em>


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Lulus Kurniasih ◽  
Sulardi Sulardi ◽  
Sri Suranta

Objective - This study aims to determine the effect of earning management and corporate governance mechanisms on corporate tax avoidance. Methodology/Technique - Corporate governance mechanisms use institutional ownership, the size of the board of commissioners, the percentage of independent commissioners, auditing committees, and audit quality as proxies. Meanwhile, earnings management uses the modified Jones model. The sample of this study include non-financial companies that are listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) between 2014 and 2016. Findings - Corporate tax avoidance can be detected by using the effective tax rate (ETR), which is the ratio of income to tax expenses. This sample was chosen using a purposive sampling method, resulting in 871 firms. The results suggest that earnings management has a significant impact on ETR. Novelty - This study identifies that only independent commissioners and audit quality have a significant influence on ETR. Type of Paper - Empirical Keywords: Tax Avoidance; Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Effective Tax Rate; Audit Quality. JEL Classification: G3, G39, G39.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 697
Author(s):  
Jumriaty Jusman ◽  
Firda Nosita

The study aims to examine the influence of Corporate Governance, Capital Intensity and Profitability on Tax Avoidance.  The proxy of Corporate governance was audit quality and audit committee, while the profitability factor used is Return on Asset (ROA) and Tax Avoidance by Cash Effective Tax Rate. The sample was chosen by purposive sampling and resulted 21 companies from mining sector listed oin Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2018. The data analyzed by using multiple linier regression. The result showed that audit quality, audit committee, and capital intensity have insignificant influence on tax avoidance. While ROA has negative significant on tax avoidance


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dyana Hapsari

Abstract In conducting this research, the aim is to analyze and find out the causes that lead to Tax Avoidance in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016-2018. The following factors that influence Tax Avoidance include Profitability, Leverage, Company Size, Capital Intensity, Sales Growth and Constitutional Ownership. The dependent variable is Tax Avoidance which is measured using Cash Effective Tax Rate (CETR). This study uses independent variables, namely research Profitability, Leverage, Company Size, Capital Intensity, Sales Growth and Constitutional Ownership. The total population of the object of observation is 144 manufacturing companies in 2016-2018. Purposive sampling method is a method used in sampling to obtain 48 samples of manufacturing companies based on predetermined criteria. By using multiple linear regression analysis techniques as a way of testing hypotheses. The following are results of studies that show that the Company's Profitability and Size have an impact on Tax Avoidance. While Leverage, Capital Intensity, Sales Progress and Constitutional Ownership do not affect Tax Avoidance. Keywords: Tax Avoidance, Profitability, Leverage, Company Size, Capital Intensity, Sales Growth, and Constitutional Ownership Abstrak Dalam melakukan penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mengetahui penyebab-penyebab yang mengakibatkan terjadinya Tax Avoidance pada perusahaan manufaktur yang tercatat di BEI pada tahun 2016-2018. Faktor-faktor berikut yang mempengaruhi Tax Avoidance antara lain Profitabilitas, Leverage, Ukuran Perusahaan, Intensitas Modal, Pertumbuhan Penjualan dan Kepemilikan Konstitusional. Variabel dependen yaitu Tax Avoidance yang diukur menggunakan Cash Effective Tax Rate (CETR). Penelitian ini menggunakan Variable independen yaitu penelitian Profitabilitas, Leverage, Ukuran Perusahaan, Intensitas Modal, Pertumbuhan Penjualan dan Kepemilikan Konstitusional. Jumlah populasi objek pengamatan 144 perusahaan manufaktur pada tahun 2016-2018. Metode purposive sampling adalah cara yang dilakukan dalam pengambilan sampel hingga memperoleh 48 sampel perusahaan manufaktur berdasarkan kriteria yang telah ditentukan. Dengan menggunakan teknik analisis regresi linier berganda sebagai cara pengujian hipotesis. Berikut adalah hasil penelitian yang menampilkan bahwa Profitabilitas dan Ukuran Perusahaan berakibat terhadap Tax Avoidance. Sedangkan Leverage, Intensitas Modal, Kemajuan Penjualan dan Kepemilikan Konstitusional tidak berakibat terhadap Tax Avoidance Keywords: Tax Avoidance, Profitabilitas, Leverage, Ukuran Perusahaan, Intensitas Modal, Pertumbuhan Penjualan, dan Kepemilikan Konstitusional


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 4516-4521

Current technological developments touch the financial sector, now known as Financial Technology (Fintech). Fintech makes financial services faster and cheaper. With the development of Fintech, the banking world is also developing. Fintech and banking collaborate to get the maximum profit. Under these conditions, this study aims to analyze the factors that influence tax avoidance on banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The population to observe were 43 banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2015-2017 period. The sample selection uses the purposive sampling method, and 21 banking companies are selected according to the criteria and processed using SPSS version 25. The dependent variable used is the effective cash tax rate (CETR). Besides, the independent variables are profitability (Return on Assets), liquidity (Loan to Deposit Ratio), leverage (Debt to Total Assets), corporate governance (corporate governance based on Surat Edaran Bank Indonesia 15/15 / DPNP), and company size. The results showed that company liquidity and size significantly affected the cash effective tax rate, while profitability, leverage, and corporate governance did not affect the cash effective tax rate. This research can be used by companies to pay attention to aspects of reporting and implementation of good corporate governance, and banking companies are expected to be able to extend credit following applicable regulations. Then for tax consultants are expected to be able to use laws and regulations wisely and not be used as a loophole to make deviations in the interests of clients. Furthermore, the Government is expected to be able to increase the supervision of tax legislation so that it is not misused or used by certain interested parties and closely supervises credit disbursements made by banking companies to comply with applicable regulations


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivi Adeyani Tandean ◽  
Winnie Winnie

This study aims to obtain an empirical evidence about the effect of good corporate governance on tax avoidance which becomes a proxy of current ETR (Effective Tax Rate). The samples of this study were 120 manufacturing companies listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2010 – 2013. The hypothesis testing used multiple regression analysis. The result of this study show that audit committee has a positive effect on tax avoidance in partial but the executive compensation, executive character, company size, institutional ownership, boards of commisioners' proportion, audit committee and audit quality have simultaneous effect to define tax avoidance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Puradinda Zulfiara ◽  
Juli Ismanto

Aim of this research is to determine the effect of accounting conservatism and tax avoidance on firm value. The type of data used in this study is secondary data in the form of annual reports of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the 2013-2016 period. The number of samples is 48 manufacturing companies. The data analysis technique used is regression analysis. The results of the study show that conservatism has a positive effect on firm value, tax avoidance has a negative effect on firm value. While simultaneously conservatism and tax avoidance have a positive effect on firm value. Thus this study supports that accounting conservatism has a role as a function of monitoring the company's investment policies and one way to maintain the value of the company in limiting losses that may arise from poorly performing investment decisions. The company that conducts tax avoidance (has a smaller effective tax rate) is an effort made by management to reduce the company's tax burden and is able to minimize expenditure for tax purposes so that management looks good in the eyes of shareholders.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tryas Chasbiandani ◽  
Tri Astuti ◽  
Sri Ambarwati

Tax avoidance measured by Earning Tax Rate (ETR) is considered to be able to describe the real activities of tax avoidance carried out by the company. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of Corporation Risk and Good Corporate Governance on Tax Avoidance with Institutional Ownership as a Moderating Variable. This study uses a sample of non-banking and financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period of 2014-2016. The analysis in this study uses the common effect method. The results of this study indicate that corporate risk does not significantly influence tax avoidance, but with institutional ownership as a moderating variable, corporate risk has a significant effect on corporate tax avoidance. Corporate governance as measured by institutional ownership, board of commissioners and audit quality has a significant effect on tax company avoidance.Tax avoidance yang diukur berdasarkan Earning Tax Rate (ETR) dianggap mampu menggambarkan aktivitas nyata dari tax avoidance yang dilakukan oleh perusahaan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis pengaruh Corporation Risk dan Good Corporate Governance Terhadap Tax Avoidance dengan  Kepemilikan Institusional  Sebagai Variable pemoderasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan sampel perusahaan non perbankan dan keuangan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2014 – 2016. Analisis dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode common effect.  Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa corporate risk tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap tax avoidance, namun dengan kepemilikan institusional sebagai variabel pemoderasi, corporate risk berpengaruh signifikan terhadap tax avoidance perusahaan.Corporate governance yang diukur dengan kepemilikan institusional, dewan komisaris dan kualitas audit berpengaruh signifikan terhadap tax avoidance perusahaan. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Indah Rahmadini ◽  
Nita Erika Ariani

This study aims to examine the effect of profitability, leverage, and corporate governance on tax planning. The independent variables used in this study are profitability, leverage, institutional ownership, managerial ownership, independent commissioners and audit committees. While the dependent variable in this study is tax planning.Tax planning in this study the measured of Cash Effective Tax Rate (CETR). The population in this study are manufacturing companies listed on Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) in the period 2014-2017. Determination of samples in this study using purposive sampling method. There are 45 manufacturing companies listed on BEI used as research samples based on predetermined criteria. The results showed that profitability, leverage, managerial ownership, independent commissioners and audit committees had a significant effect on tax planning. Meanwhile institutional ownership has no significant effect on tax planning


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