نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Agency Theory and Corporate Tax Compliance:
Empirical Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange
Abstract
Using structural equation modeling approach, this research aims to explore the effect of agency conflicts on tax compliance. For this purpose, 107 publicly listed firms from Tehran Stock Exchange for the period 1387 to 1394 (Iranian Calendar) are selected as final data set. As an independent variable, the observable variables such as return on assets ratio, assets utilization ratio, free cash flows ratio, leverage ratio, growth opportunities and firm size are used to proxy the agency costs. In addition, difference between definite tax and express tax are used to measure tax compliance which is depend variable and percentage of institutional investors and audit office type are considered as control variables. The results indicate that the increase of agency conflicts leads to increasing tax non-compliance over the separation of ownership and management.
Keywords: Agency Conflicts, Agency Theory, Tax Avoidance, Tax Compliance, Tax Evasion.
کلیدواژهها English