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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2021.22.6.51

A study on the effect of tax evasion controversy on corporate values in internet news portals through big data analysis  

Lee, Sang-Min (Department of Business Administration and Data Science, CHA University)
Park, Myung-Ho (Department of Economics, Hongik University)
Kim, Byung-Jun (Department of Business Administration and Data Science, CHA University)
Park, Dae-Keun (Department of Business Administration and Data Science, CHA University)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.22, no.6, 2021 , pp. 51-57 More about this Journal
Abstract
If a company's actions to save or avoid taxes are judged to be tax evasion rather than legal tax action by the tax authorities, the company will not only pay tax but also non-tax costs such as damage to corporate image and stock price decline due to a series of tax evasion-related news articles. Therefore, this study measures the frequency of occurrence of tax evasion controversial keywords in internet news portal as a factor to measure the severity of the case, and analyzes the effect of the frequency of occurrence on corporate value. In the Korean stock market, we crawl related articles from internet news portal by using keywords that are controversial for tax evasion targeting top companies based on market capitalization, and generate a time series of the frequency of occurrence of keywords about tax evasion by company and analyze the effect of frequency of appearance on book value versus market capitalization. Through panel regression and impulse response analysis, it is analyzed that the frequency of appearance has a negative effect on the market capitalization and the effect gradually decreases until 12 months. This study examines whether the tax evasion issue affects the corporate value of Korean companies and suggests that it is necessary to take these influences into account when entrepreneurs set up tax-planning schemes.
Keywords
Internet News Portal; Tax Evasion Controversy; Keyword Extraction; Corporate Value;
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