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The Effects of Sustainable Tax Strategies on Value Relevance

조세전략의 지속가능성이 회계정보의 가치관련성에 미치는 영향

  • Ma, Hee-Young (Department of Tax Accounting, Dongduk Women's University)
  • 마희영 (동덕여자대학교 세무회계학과)
  • Received : 2018.08.31
  • Accepted : 2018.09.21
  • Published : 2018.09.30
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Abstract

This study verifies whether the sustainable tax strategy provides unique information on earnings persistence and brings about the difference of value relevance of accounting information. Sustainability is measured by the 5-year coefficient of variation in cash ETR, such as in McGuire et al.(2013), which measures variability in long-term performance of tax avoidance. The value relevance of accounting information in this study is modified by the Ohlson model(1995), which explains the value of the firm by using accounting information such as net assets and net income and other non-accounting information. The samples of this study are the firms listed on the securities market from 2004 to 2015 and the final samples are 3,133 firm-year. The results of this empirical analysis show that the value relevance of accounting information increases as firms have long-term and sustainable tax strategies. Most of the prior studies on tax strategies have examined the tax minimization strategy that minimizes the tax cost. However, this study is different in that the sustainability of the tax strategy affects the value relevance of accounting information. The results of this study will be useful for the users to make decision using the value relevance of accounting information.

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