Will a departure from tax-based accounting encourage tax noncompliance? Archival evidence from a transition economy

Author(s)
Author(s)
Lin, K. Z.
Mo, P. L. L.
Date Issued
2010
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Volume
50
Issue
1
Start page
58
End page
73
Abstract
We investigate whether a departure from a tax-based accounting system toward the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards encourages tax noncompliance. We also examine whether such a departure, which weakens book-tax conformity, affects the informativeness of book-tax differences for tax noncompliance. Our evidence suggests that as book-tax conformity decreases, tax noncompliance increases. Although book-tax differences remain informative of tax noncompliance, the informativeness attenuates as book-tax conformity weakens. Additionally, firms with high incentives to inflate book income are more tax compliant than their counterparts after the departure from a tax-based accounting system.
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