Tax planning activities can be detrimental to the welfare of a country’s nations. Firms’ tax planning strategies can be classified according to the activities’ components, i.e. permanent, temporary and statutory tax rates differences. Upper echelons theory explains top management team (TMT) as corporate elite whose decisions can be predicted throughContinue Reading

Firms engage in tax planning to varying extents. One potential determinant of such variations may be the characteristics of senior executives. The objective of this study is to investigate whether CEO origin (insiders or outsiders) and departing CEO tenure are significant in explaining the extent of corporate tax planning. TheContinue Reading